Thursday 29 October 2015

Mrs Nkechi Aforbaze needs our help!!!!

Mrs. Nkechi Aforbaze, an Office Technology and
Management graduate of the Auchi Polythenic
who has been diagnosed with kidney cancer, is
seeking the sum of N2 million to access five
courses of chemotherapy prescribed to save her
from the cancer burden.
To this end, the thirty-year-old Aforbze who is
presently an applicant has appealed to
sympathetic state governments including Lagos,
Delta and Edo State, among others,
philanthropists and public-spirited Nigerians to
help raise fund needed fund to help her complete
the treatment.
According to the mother of one who resides in
Lagos, her predicaments began last year with
abdominal pain which prompted her to go for
medical checkup at a private hospital where she
was suspected to have developed kidney cancer”.
I performed the surgery at Robostin Medical
Centre at Surulere on the January 6, 2015.
Thereafter I was referred to oncologists at the
Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in
Idiaraba where the tumor was removed and
tested for the laboratory analysis. It proved
cancerous and since then, “I have been placed on
drugs.”
Oncologists in LUTH conducting the treatment,
have further prescribed six courses of
chemothepy, that would be administered with a
drug called Avastin. This drug costs N458,000 per
course. Each course of the chemotherapy will be
taken at three weeks interval.
In a letter on behalf of Aforbaze with Hospital No:
646314 issued from the Consultant Radiation
Oncologist in LUTH, Dr. Olatunji who is managing
the case of Aforbaze, dated March 26, 2015, the
cancer specialist confirmed that, “Patient is
scheduled to commence immunotherapy (Alpha
interon day 1, 3 and 5 respectively) targeted
therapy with IV and radiotherapy to Nephrectomy
bed.”
The total cost of treatment, according to Dr.
Olatunji is IV Avastin 400mg: N458,000 x 6
cycles; IV Sc a-Interferon: N150,000 x 6 cycles;
and Radiotherapy: N100,000.
Although these drugs were prescribed since
January 6, after four months of delay in the
takeoff of the treatment, “some churches and kind
Nigerians helped me to raise money which I used
to access the first course of the chemotherapy
that had been administered on me.” She added
that the total money I need now to complete to
complete the chemotherapy treatment is N2
million.
“This appeal is to generate money for this
particular treatment because I cannot afford it. I
beg government and Nigerians to come to my aid.
My Bank account number is: Egbo Nkechi,
2009386613 Zenith Bank.

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