Tida Yaffa, a single mother from Wuli Sutukoba has appealed for overseas treatment for her 2-year-old son who has been battling a surgery wound for years now.
“When the child was born his stomach remained swollen,” she said, adding the doctors thought it was worm but that the problem is with his rectum.
“I was told at the hospital that after the operation if I could wait for three months for the child’s rectum to be properly return, which I agreed, after the three months the child started grew in pain, I return him to RVTH and they operated him for the second time.”
She continued that she is now told that “he is completely treated from the problem, but left with the rectum to return, I always travelling on each appointment from Wuli to Banjul as I have neither residence nor anyone within the Greater Banjul Area to stay with within the period of any of my appointment to the hospital,” she added.
“I told by the one of the Doctor at RVTH that the doctors that carry such an operation of returning the rectum are not in the country but in the foreign country that usually comes to the Gambia seasonally, and they are yet to come, she added that the doctors told her that this is happening to many children but they can only operate and remove the rectum for the child to be able to ease him/herself.
“The child is two years now and since he was born, he is still defecating through his rectum which is remove on the stomach for the child to be able to defecate, she said, the child use to injured on the operated stomach where the rectum is located after the operation, and I am finding it very difficult to provide bladder for the child which is attached to the rectum,” she continued.
She called on the government, philanthropies and NGOs to help her child for overseas treatment as the child condition is getting worst, she said. This is her telephone 3521463