F AMILY OF BOY BORN WITHOUT A PENIS BEG FOR HELP

Born in March 2003,13-year
Old Uchenna Ekezie has no
penis. Uchenna Ejike has lived
with what is described in
medical parlance as ‘MALDER
DEVELOPED’ external
genitalia. The young boy has
no external male reproductive
organ.
Uchenna can not urinate
normally and certainly,there’s
no hope he will father a child
if his present condition
remain
unsolved.
UcheNna hails from
Umuariam Obowo local
government area of Imo State.
Nigerian FM was told that this
young man has undergone
many surgeries to correct this
terrible condition.
The first surgery was to help
for correction of the a
continous dripping of
Urine,while a second surgery
was performed for the
elongation of the rudimentary
stump.
The first attempt to to correct
the birth defect, Uchenna
suffered further damage in
certain veins and arteries
around his genital area.
A medical evaluation by an
IndianHospital in Abuja sent
to FortisEscortsHospital, New
delhi, India, from the
Department of Surgery,
Federal Medical Centre,
QueenElizabethHospital,
Umuahia, explained that
Uchenna had the first surgery
eight days after birth.
In the report, signed by Dr.
E.N. Agwu on behalf of Dr.
G.U. Ugbam, the Chief
Consultatnt Paediatric
Surgeon, the procedure,
known as posterior iliac
osteotomy, was followed by
the repair of the exomphalons
at two months of age, and
followed to months later by
repair of epispadias.
At four months of age,
Uchenna had a herniotomy
and bladder augmentation at
six months. All surgeries wer
carried out at the FMC,
Umuahia. Uchenna’s father,
Celestine, told Good Health
Weekly that efforts to seek
financial assistance from the
ImoState government has not
yielded fruit.
Speaking through the Queen of
Peace Catholic Church,
Umuariam, Obowo, LGA,
Celestine observed that an
estimated bill of $12,000
(about N2 million) has been
issued by the hospital for the
corrective surgery, but
observed that an additional
N2.5 million was being sought
to cover medicals, return
tickets, evaluations, tests and
post surgeries and
rehabilitation.
The Indian hospital is all set
to correct this abnormality
and restore Uchenna’s
external genitalia to normal,
but the obvious financial
constraint is a stumbling
block. Lamenting his son’s
plight, Celestine appealed for
urgent financial assiatance to
enable the life-saving
surgeries to commence.
“We have no kobo or even a
fraction of this amount.
Already we have spent all we
have on his treatment and the
family is broke. I even had to
sell off all the cement bocks I
moulded to build about four
rooms, as well as the old car I
was managing to provide for
my family. We are now
completely dependent on the
response of generous
Nigerians to out plea. Please
help provide Uchenna with a
better quality of life and offer
us hope in humanity.”
Please help Uchenna by calling
Celestine Ejike Ekezie
First Bank of Nigeria Plc,
3303010231336, or call
08060658913 and 08136506718
for more details.