A 20-year-old third year student of Bekwai SDA Senior High School (SHS) in the Ashanti Region, Miss Leticia Nyamekeh Ackah, is in dire need of financial assistance to enable her to undergo a surgery to remove a tumour from her brain.
She needs a total of $25,000 or its cedi equivalent to travel to India to have the surgery as the service is not available in Ghana.
The Home Economics student dropped out of school in 2016 when the tumour started blurring her vision and virtually made her blind.
Although she looks physically fit, her sight is completely gone. She can neither read nor write and it is very difficult for her to move about.
Miss Ackah lost her father in 2012 and she is currently staying with her mother, Doris Amponsah, a petty trader at Nampansa, a suburb of Bekwai, who also takes care of five other children and her aged mother.
Medical report
A medical report, signed by Dr Anthony Lamina, a Consultant Surgeon at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, said the CT scan conducted on Leticia showed “a pineoblastoma with severe obstructive hydrocephalus and signs of increased intracranial pressure.”
It said on March 17, 2016, Ms Ackah reported at KATH with a two-month history of blurred vision and prior to that, she had experienced persistent headaches and occasional vomiting and had been attended to by two different eye clinics without any improvement “and so was referred to the Eye Centre of KATH where a CT scan of the brain revealed a rare brain tumour.”
According to the report, the patient required a surgical removal of the tumour, adding, “the location of the tumour will require an endoscopic approach, which service and equipment are unavailable in Ghana.
“A hospital has been contacted in India for the purpose, the patient will need financial support due to the huge bill involved,” it said.
Source: Daily Graphic
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how can we donate
there is no contact information to reach out and support..
Ask the lady to Dr.ANDREW. NEURO SURGEON at Narbit at, teaching Hospital in Tema it will be less than going to India.
This surgery can be done at 37 Military Hospital.
you obviously need to take your Bible lessons seriously. i feel sad for you
Take her to resurrection power new generation church at kasoa she will be healed...my aunty was healed when she went to the church!!
Please can somebody tell me if the National Health Insurance Scheme cover or does not cover her condition; if the answer is the later then it is inhuman to let the girl waste away. I humbly plead with all and sundry to let us contribute to assist her undergo the surgery. Let us show compassion and exhibit the Ghanaian Spirit. We can do it; time is ticking away.