By Emeka Ugwuanyi
It started like ordinary boil in her mouth and little did she know it would turn out to be a life threatening matter. That is the story of Mrs Abugu.
Mrs Abugu Joy Nwanneka, who resides at Oko-omi, Iju-ota in Ogun State with her husband and children, had a painful growth and swollen mouth and pus was coming out from it. As a result, she was taken to General Hospital Gbagada in Lagos.
On 13th July 2021, doctors at the Gbagada General Hospital performed a surgical operation on her mouth but with series of tests on the operated area later, the medical personnel diagnosed the sickness to be cancer of the mouth.
After the discovery, she was asked to go for further treatment and therapy but because the family was unable to afford the funds, the operated part started to degenerate and got to the point it started bleeding daily and currently she cannot breathe well.
When she went back to Gbagada General Hospital, she was referred to NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in Idi-Araba, Lagos. Doctors at the Cancer Centre in LUTH said she has head and neck cancer (adenocarcinoma of the maxilla) and would require four million, seven hundred and twenty-six thousand, seven hundred naira (N4,726,700.00) for treatment.
A breakdown of the cost of treatment by the Clinical and Radiation Oncologist at LUTH Cancer Centre as at the time the family went there last is as follows: Radiotheraphy = N1,263,000; Chemotherapy (189,300 x 9 month) = N1,703,700; Laboratory test per cycle (20,000 x 18cycles) = N360,000; Support medications = N600,000; Radiological investigations = N800,000, giving a total = N4,726,700.
Members of the public can donate to her account. Her account details are as follows: Account Name – Abugu Joy Nwanneka; Account No: 0026114994; Bank – Access Bank.
The family can be reached on 0813 236 4707 and 0808 205 7736.
