I am pleading with Nigerians to help save my son,” cried a mother whose 31-year-old son, John Harrison Bodzah is in severe pains after sustaining injuries as a result of a workplace accident.
Narrating the incident to Radio Nigeria, John’s mother, Mabel Bodzah, a petty trader, said it all began when John who was working with a Port Harcourt based company, sustained injury which affected his left arm.
According her, in the cause of treatment, he was taken from one hospital to another, until was latter admitted at a General Hospital where he has been in agony since then, “not eating properly and painfully passing urine”.
Recounted how she stretched her meagre savings to ensure that her son gets all the care that he required, Mabel said, “John is my third child, until the accident, he was a strong, hardworking, and hopeful young man. But now, he is hanging on to life”.
“He has been in and out of hospitals for months, lost his job, and the family savings exhausted. Doctors say he urgently needs surgery to correct the arm injury and address the bladder damage before his kidneys fail completely”. She pleaded
“John is my third child, until the accident, he was a strong, hardworking, and hopeful young man. But now, he is hanging on to life”. Mabel
She pleaded that, “the estimated cost is N14.5 million, which is beyond a trader like me struggling to feed her family.”
A medical report signed by Dr. Grace Gabriel, the CEO of a private hospital in Port Harcourt, stated that John was presented to the facility with complicated injury on the left arm which resulted from a road traffic accident.
“John also has a long-standing history of chronic kidney disease and severe urinary retention pointing out that,
“Computerised Tomography Scan (without contrast) reveals Obstructive Uropathy Secondary to Bladder Outlet Obstruction with Gross Dilatation of both ureters and Pelvicalyceal System of both kidneys”.
“Patient has been counselled for urgent Cystectomy, possible sessions of dialysis and skin grafting of the affected arm, with total estimation cost of N14.5 million,” the report stated.
Mabel called on well meaning Nigerians to come to their aid and save John from dying, addi g that, “Donations to Joshua Bodzah, First Bank 3036970550 account, will go a long way to support him
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