Oyemakinde Isaac wants to live!

12 year old Oyemakinde Issacs needs just N4.5m for kidney transplant

Oyemakinde Isaac is a 12-year-old boy, who, in normal circumstances, should be in school with his peers in Senior Secondary 2 (SS2) class. However,
ill healthr has since kept him away from school. He was in March 2011, diagnosed of acute renal (kidney) failure.

What is most paramount now, according to the boy’s father, Oyemakinde Ayobami, is for him to be saved from the cold hands of death and be back again on his feet. It is in a bid to save the life of his son, Isaac, that he has been going cap in hand to individuals, corporate bodies, churches, mosques to beg for money for kidney transplant, which will take place in India.

Already, the search for a donor had been met in the person of one of Isaac’s siblings, who has offered one of his kidneys. The young lad and his two care givers were billed to have travelled to India for the surgery since October but this has not been possible due to lack of funds.

Therefore, Oyemakinde, who is unemployed, and his wife, a schoolteacher, is crying out to the general public to “kindly assist us to save the life of our son. Please, help us in any way or area you can to take him there for the operation so that we don’t lose him to the cold hands of death. As you do this for him, God in His infinite mercy will protect you and your family from any kind of disease, amen,” they prayed.

“When we discovered his body was swelling up, we took him to the General Hospital in Alimosho. We were then referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja; it was there that he was diagnosed of acute kidney failure. After about two or three weeks’ treatment, he started undergoing dialysis, which, at onset, we had to deposit N60,000 (sixty thousand naira). And since then, he has been placed on twice-a-week dialysis at N25,000 per session.

“Now, the consultant in LASUTH has said the boy would be taken to India for kidney transplant. We have been able to connect about three different hospitals in India for the surgery. The cheapest among them is about $20,000 (twenty thousand dollars) for the surgery alone, excluding the accommodation and airfare for him and two care givers. In all, the total expenses are about N4,500,000 (four million and five hundred thousand naira).”
A medical report issued by the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, LASUTH, confirmed that clinical findings on Oyemakinde Isaac are in keeping with severe acute renal failure due to possible acute glomerulonephritis. On admission, he has had a series of investigations.

According to the report, “he has had 15 session of haemodialysis so far and will remain on dialysis pending definitive renal transplant. The patient has, so far, incurred a bill of N370,000 on dialysis.”
•Please note, you may contact Oyemakinde Isaac A. through Skye Bank Acct No. 103 087 8213 or Ayo Oyemakinde on cell phone no. 0803 319 1730 or 0809 699 8849.

Source; Sunnews Tues, January 12, 2012 ( Link; http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/goodhealth/2012/jan/10/goodhealth-10-01-2012-002.html )