Just N2m Can Save Mikdad’s Life!

 

Mikdad: Begging for your urgent assistance!

The parents of two years old Jimoh Miqdad Akanbi have appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to come to the aid of their son who has been diagnosed with a large septa defect (whole in the heart).

Mikdad’s father, a bricklayer, said he had to make the appeal after all efforts to raise the over two million naira required for the surgical operation in India yielded no result.

According to him, he had written several letters of appeal to notable personalities in Lagos State including the Speaker of the State Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, wife of the State Governor, Emmanuela Abimbola Fashola and others with no response so far.

Little Mikdad was first taken to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, in December 2012 for recurrent chest infection which necessitated frequent admissions.

After series of tests and medical examination, he was found to be having a large inlet ventricular septa defect with moderate pulmonary hypertension.

Mr Jimoh, who has been running from pillar to post seeking financial assistance for his child, said doctors at LASUTH had advised him on the need for urgent surgical closure of the defect in order to save the life of Mikdad. But as minutes tick and days pass, the needed sum is yet to be realised. The boy is currently placed on anti-failure drugs for survival!

Dr B.A Animashaun, a paediatrics cardiologist at the hospital notified Mrs Fashola about Mikdad’s condition through a letter dated February 19, 2013.

In the letter, Dr Animashaun noted that Mikdad ‘has a congenital heart disease (Large ventricular septa defect L-R shunt with flow related mild pulmonary stenosis). He requires surgical intervention.’

However, no response has been given up till now. Mikdad’s father said he personally wrote another letter to the speaker informing him of his child’s condition and also seeking financial assistance. Nothing, he said, came out of that effort as well.

‘My son’s condition is deteriorating every day. I humbly seek your financial assistance because as a bricklayer I do not have the financial capability to foot the bill and other expenses,’ Mr Jimoh appealed in a chat with our correspondent.

The case of little Mikdad draws tears from even a stone-hearted individual as his condition continues to deteriorate on a daily basis. 

All he requests from Nigerians is the life line of N2m for the surgery.

You may assist by dropping something for Mikdad’s survival at GTBank Plc. Account name: Jimoh Mikdad Akanbi. 

Account no: 0125778504 or LASUTH RADIOLOGY-II 1770560238.

The father can be contacted on 07043042750.