Group seeks N600,000 from Delta govt to save 8-year-old girl

A group under the auspices of Child Welfare Fund on Monday sent a ‘Save Our Soul’ message to the Delta state government to prevent an eight-year-old girl, Miss Precious Moses, from dying by providing the sum of N600,000 to pay for a medical operation that would remove a tumor growth from the girl.

The group also called for fourteen persons to donate fresh blood on the date of the operation of the little girl.

Speaking at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ Warri Correspondents’ Chapel, president of the group, Comrade Joshua Omorere stated that the girl’s health has deteriorated as a result of poverty, stressing that her parents could not afford the estimated one million six hundred thousand naira medical bill given to them by the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, DELSUTH, Otefe-Oghara.

Comrade Omorere disclosed that the eight year old girl is lying helplessly at the Pediatric Ward 2, Bed 2 at DELSUTH.

Comrade Omorere said,”I am begging the Delta State Government to save this young girl from dying. The Government should help us raise this money so that her parents can pay for her medical bills. We are also looking for 14 people to donate fresh blood on the day of the tumor operation. Please Nigerians, help this young girl.”

Comrade Omorere stated that the girl, who usually teaches her mates, stopped going to school because she is being mocked and stigmatized.

Narrating her ordeal, the mother of the girl, Mrs. Juliet Ekeh said the tumor at the back of the girl started like a small boil which was treated only for it to start growing abnormally, stressing that,”it is gradually spreading to other parts of her body”.

Mrs. Ekeh said she has already spent the little she had financially, just as she begged the Delta State Government to help save the life of her daughter by raising the remaining six hundred thousand naira.

Mrs. Ekeh, who is resident at Orhunwhorhun in Udu Local Government Area, is also begging Nigerians to help donate fresh blood for the successful tumor operation of her daughter.