Raising money for heart surgery a nightmare, parents of children with hole in the heart lament
Punch Newspapers Sections ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS Published 14 March 2021 For most parents of children born with a hole in the heart (atrial septal defect), the greatest frustration is raising the required funds for corrective surgery to save the children. Some of the parents share their emotional stories of struggling to raise millions of naira to save their children. ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS reports When a civil servant with the Lagos State government, Wahab Abidemi Alao, received a distress call in 2020 that his nine-year-old daughter, Alimat, had fainted in school, he had no idea ...