TVC E. Darasimi Ogunwunmi 3, has gone through hell and back, and still struggling to live because he drank caustic soda left lying carelessly around his class while he was thirsty.
At the moment, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital doctors have said, Darasimi would require another round of surgery for the repair of his throat and stomach which cumulatively would cost about N2.5m.
The once health and bouncing baby boy has been reduced to a sack of bone and skin as he is being fed through a tube on his hospital bed.
Few months ago, November 19 2015 to be precise, Darasimi was a normal kid running to school and running back home into the arms of his mother today he cannot even drink water.
In November 2015, Darasimi, a Kindergarten One pupil of Fahsal Children’s School, Ilupeju Estate, Idiroko, Ogun State, drank caustic soda left lying carelessly around his class while he was thirsty. According to report, the proprietor of Fahsal, Mrs. Fausat Abubakar, recently added soap making into her line of business but rather than remove the production far from the reach of her pupils, the soap is being produced right beside their classrooms.
It was reported that Darasimi became thirsty and his teachers turned a deaf ear to his incessant cry for water. He saw this content and took it for water, which landed him at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.
They only realized what had happened when the boy was found outside his classroom crying and bleeding
from the mouth. The boy’s mother, Toyin, a food vendor in the area, who can barely help herself , not to talk of the boy.
The Doctor said, the lethal liquid has destroyed the boy’s throat and stomach.
They were referred to the Federal Medical Centre in Abeokuta, where the boy was admitted and treated for another six days. Again, the hospital referred them for more advanced treatment at the LUTH.Toyin said, “We got to LUTH on November 26 and after few days of treatment, they told us that we needed N65,000 for
an initial surgery, which was to take place on December 1.“A day before the surgery
was supposed to take place, we had not paid and we had borrowed from everywhere we
could turn to for the initial treatment.”It was learnt that around this time,
Darasimi started to take little quantity of tea.
At LUTH, doctors said it had become imperative for the boy to undertake the initial surgery that was put off as the parents run from pillar to post praying for the survival of their son.
Doctors, who spoke under a condition of anonymity said, the boy would require at least two more surgeries that the boy’s stomach and esophagus have to be reconstructed urgently.“They are operations that require some urgency if the boy is to survive.
Meanwhile, the parents have opened a bank account in the boy’s name to help
raise money for his surgery – FCMB account no: 3528300027; account name: Darasinmi
Ogunwunmi.
