Governor Ugwuanyi’s intervention in child’s ailment yields dividend

A motherless child, Master Uchechukwu Nwachukwu who had undergone surgery, financed by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, for a brain ailment called conjenitus hydrocephalus, has been discharged from Memfy’s Neurosurgery Hospital Enugu.

Briefing the press shortly before the discharge of the child, the state’s commissioner for health Dr. Samuel Ngwu recalled that the child was identified by Governor Ugwuanyi on his visit to the Holy Ghost Motherless Home during his tour of less privileged homes in the state and directed him (Ngwu) to cause immediate surgery on the child after paying the bill of two million naira for the surgery.
He added that with the successful operation performed at the hospital by Prof. Sam Ohaegbunam, the swollen head of the child will reduce.

However, the child has been referred to the state’s Parklane Hospital where he will receive anti-biotic drugs for about three months.

In a brief remark at the occasion, the physician who performed the surgery, Prof. Sam Ohaegbunam noted that the ailment was caused by the expansion and pumping of blood in the head which makes ones head to be bigger adding that this damages the brain.

He regretted that the ailment had not been diagnosed early enough which he said made the child’s head to be bigger than his body. He added that the child will be on constant check by a doctor because once the case appears, it is always there, adding that constant monitoring is needed to ensure that all organs are working to avert re-occurrence.

He commended Governor Ugwuanyi for referring the child’s case to Nigerian doctors, adding that some people would have referred the child to a hospital outside Nigeria. He called on all others to emulate the governor by using indigenous doctors in such cases.