Renal Failure:A Patient in Need of Financial Help

Mrs. Josephine Chielo, who is a victim of renal failure misdiagnosis,needs immediate financial intervention to help her seek proper medical treatment for her worsening health condition, writes Steve Dada

Mrs. Josephine Chielo

Before October last year, Mrs. Josephine Chielo was full of life and she eagerly looked forward to accomplishing some of her set out goals. She did not have the slightest inkling of what fate had in stock for her. The bubbling Chielo later became a shadow of herself due to an end stage kidney failure whichhas rendered her completely incapacitated. The unwanted visitor had crept into the family of Chilelos and turned the family’s joy into anguish and misery. Today, the mother of six can hardly do anything on her own without assistance from a family member.

Chielo’s second child, Jennifer bore a heavy heart and so much emotion when she walked into THISDAY Corporate headquarters, Apapa, Lagos, recently to narrate the story of her beloved mother. She was agitated and feasibly worried about the plight of her mother who has been bed-ridden at the St-Nicholas Hospital where arrangement is on to get her new kidney for survival. She was also more desperate because of the claim by the doctor that her mother is not responding to treatment which makes her matter very critical. In the next few days, Chielo needs to get a transplant done if she has to survive.

Narrating her ordeal, Jennifer who resides at number 2, Modupe Street, Anifowose, Ikeja with her parents and siblings said her mother’s health started deteriorating in October last year, having been diabetic for some years and due to the diabetes, she ran into coma and then her kidneys were affected and also one of her eyes, which she claimed can no longer see.

“But we didn’t have any idea of her true health situation.We were just treating her for the main thing (diabetes). We first took her to the First Foundation Hospital, Enugu, from there to the general hospital and thereafter to Adekemi Hospital, from where we took her to Total Health Hospital in Lagos. We have been taking her round until about three weeks ago when we took her to St-Nicholas Hospital and there they told us she has an end stage kidney failure,’’ she stated.