The mother of a 10-month-old baby has cried for help from Nigerians in order for the baby to see with his two eyes. The mother of the baby, Funmilayo Oladiran, told our correspondent in Osogbo on Thursday that doctors had told her that the baby, Sodiq, might lose his two eyes if something urgent was not done to correct the defect in the eye which was increasingly bulging out of its socket due to cataract.Funmilayo, who is from Ejigbo in Osun State, said she was a petty trader and that her husband and herself had no one to turn to for help.
Funmilayo added that all the efforts they had made to raise money for the baby’s treatment had been futile while calling on Nigerians to help them.She said, “One of his eyes is bulging out and he cannot see with the eye. Sodiq is 10 months old and this started not long after I gave birth to him.
“We took him to LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo. Two surgeries were carried out on him but I was told that there remains an operation to be carried out to stop the cataract from spreading to the other eye and for him to see. “I don’t want him to go blind but I don’t have money to go for any treatment again. That is why I am calling on anybody who can assist us to save my baby from blindness.
“We need financial assistance to enable us take him to a hospital for further treatment. I will be happy if Nigerians can just help to make my baby to see well again.” The mother said that there was no history of eye problem in neither her family nor her husband’s family.
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