Primary School Teacher, Chijioke laments over son’s malformed scrotum, calls for assistance 

From Chinelo Kodilichukwu Enugu

A teacher with a privately owned  primary school in Enugu metropolis, Mrs Grace Sharon Chijioke at the weekend lamented over son’s, Master Chidubem Emmanuel Chijioke, who has malformed scrotum, and called for assistance to enable her carryout the third surgeries on him.

She lamented that Chidubem, aged 11, was born with a malformed scrotum which medical experts call Bladder Extrophy that made him to be passing urine uncontrollably, since October 24, 2013 and thus has been wearing Pampers (diapers) like a baby.

As a result of the bladder issue, Chidubem is billed to undergo six different surgeries, before he will be able to urinate like a normal human being and four different surgeries have been performed already leaving out two; bladder neck connection and another in medical parlance called, hypospadias to enable him make use of his pennis.

Already, the family had spent over N8 million for the surgeries and for the continuous purchase of diapers but the remaining two to three operations would cost about another N8 million or thereabout because the last time they did the surgery, doctors at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH billed them N6 million.

The worst of it all is that what prompted Mrs Chijioke to cry out for help is that her husband, Mr. Chijioke Emmanuel, a Keke driver abandoned her and her three children and vanished into thin air, not even a phone call or money for upkeep. According to her, her husband said he was going to the North to make money but never knew that he was abandoning them because he could not cope with the family needs especially with Chidubem’s case.

“I have been bearing this alone for two years now that my husband abandoned us and absconded to only God knows where.  Chidubem will be going to the secondary School any moment from now and how will he be going about on diapers,” she laments.

She said that she has sought help from relatives, friends and well-wishers to no avail and the option left for her is to cry out so that “anybody anywhere can come and help me.”

Mrs. Chijioke lives at no.15 Ekwulobia street, Garriki area of Enugu South local government area, and can be reached with 08148479789.