ABEOKUTA– A promising 6-year-old primary one pupil in Ogun state, Gold Adeyemi is currently facing a life threatening medical challenge, having being diagnosed with brain tumour which requires urgent surgery to save her life.
The ailment, discovered in May 28 May, 2022 started with a symptom of acute malaria and was thereafter taken to Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta for initial diagnosis.
The persistent headache resulted in a comprehensive medical examination where it was discovered that she is suffering from brain tumour ailment, and was eventually taken to Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital(OAUTH), Ile-Ife.
The management had earlier referred the patient to Neurological Surgery Department, St James University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leads, L$97TF, United Kingdom, in a letter reference number OAUTHC/HR.3/VOL.IV/XXV/122
The financial challenge of the parents made it a herculean task, hence resolved to do the operation at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile-Ife, in Osun State
The patient, a young female girl with hospital number 463528 in the hospital is currently undergoing serious pains with sleepless day and night, as the parents passionately appealed to well-meaning individuals, government and corporate bodies to come to her aid
A referral medical letter written by Dr. G.O. Ejembi, Consultant Neurosurgeon at Onafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, disclosed that the patient had been on admission for three months before the first phase of the operation
“The above named child presented at our neurosurgical emergency unit 3 months ago, on account of headache of 3 months duration, unsteady gait of 2 months duration and visual impairment of 1 month duration. There was associated early morning vomiting, generalized tonic-clonic convulsions and alteration of consciousness. No prior diplopia, limb weakness or sensory impairment.
“On examination, she had a GCS score of 14, bilateral papilloedema, up-gaze palsy, quadriparesis, global hypertonia and hyper-reflexia. She had a brain MRI scan that showed a mixed intensity mass lesion in the pineal region with triventriculomegaly and transependymal sippage”, the letter reads
