*Sends SOS to Kogi Gov Wada
Daud Olatunji
Unless N3 million is provided urgently for a kidney transplant in China, this computer analyst, Bello Solomon Aliyu, may lose his life.
Aliyu, 45, popularly known while schooling at the Federal University of Technology, Minna as Suleiman Aliyu, has lost much weight, no thanks to a chronic kidney ailment which gives him the picture of a weak and old sick man.
Aliyu on tenterhooks … waits for public spirited Nigerians
In a letter from the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, titled, ‘To whom it may concern’, and signed by a Senior Registrar, Dr. O G Olukunle, on behalf of consultant nephrologist, the hospital said Aliyu is suffering from chronic kidney disease secondary to adult polycystic kidney disease and now in renal failure in the last three years.
“He has been maintained on haemodialysis which has given temporary relief and also on some medications,”the letter stated.
“The definitive treatment modality is kidney transplantation.We hereby write that all necessary assistance to support and facilitate this treatment should be done without hesitation”.
Narrating his ordeal, Aliyu, from Kogi State, but lives in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, said the ailment started four years ago when he was diagnosed of high blood pressure. He was placed on drugs following the diagnosis at the FMC, Abeokuta.
According to him, in 2011, his doctors detected that the high blood pressure had affected his two kidneys and liver.
“In March 2014 , I travelled to Abuja to install some software programmes when I took critically ill and was rushed to a hospital, but I was later referred to the F M C, Abeokuta.
“When I got to the FMC, Abeokuta, I was told that my kidneys and liver were failing and that I will need to do kidney transplant in India.
“The cost for the kidney transplant in India was said to be N6 million, but we later got information that we might not need more than N3 million.
“Meanwhile, at the moment, I go for weekly dialysis which costs N35,000 and sometimes N70,000 .
“I have written a letter to the governor of my state (Kogi), Captain Idris Wada, but I don’t know how to pass it across to him.
“I was also told that the ailment is hereditary. I need help to be alive. I need N3 million for kidney transplant in China “.
The patient, while speaking with our correspondent, had to be assisted to sit by his wife.
He appealed for assistance from Governor Wada and public spirited Nigerians through cash payment into his bank account with the following details: Bello Solomon Aliyu, 0111987220, current account, Guarantee Trust Bank.
*The patient can be reached on telephone numbers: 08067503558, 08062142787
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