Afusat Jimoh’s life changed
seven years ago after she fell into boiling oil. At the time, she was helping
an aunt living in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State to fry some pieces of meat
when she suddenly had epileptic convulsion and fell into the sizzling oil.
While battling with the
burns she sustained in the incident, her six-month-old child fell ill and died,
followed by the death of her husband.
Punch Metro learnt that
after many years of trying to find solutions to her woes, her mother also
abandoned her and fled.
The Lagos State Government,
which promised to foot the bills for a face-lift surgery, was said to have
defaulted on its pledge.It was learnt that Afusat now begs for alms in order to
raise funds for her surgery.
Punch Metro visited
Ijeshatedo Street in the Surulere area of Lagos, where the Kwara State indigene
resides with an uncle, Abdullahi Ayinla.She had a veil on her body with which
she covered her injuries.
She said,
“I was helping my aunt to fry some pieces of
meats. There was nobody at home that day and I didn’t know when I felt dizzy
and unconsciously fell into the hot oil that I was using to fry the
meat.“People came late to my rescue, by which time the oil had damaged my face,
arm and neck.”
Afusat said she was rushed
to a nearby hospital, where she spent four months before being transferred to
the Burns Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.While the
hospital doctors were battling to restore her health, her baby, Fatai, died.
She said,
“My child died because I
could not breastfeed him. After his death, my husband was no longer coming to
the hospital to check on me and that gave me some concerns. After several
months, we decided to look for him at their family house. I was told that he
had died and his family did not want to compound my woes, which was why they
left me in the dark.
“Right now, I also don’t
know where my mother is. She has left me for years and I have lost all contacts
with her. The only person I have around me now is my uncle and my old father
who visits once in a while.
‘’I was selling ready-made
clothes, but people were afraid of patronising me because of my looks. This was
why I started begging to complement the little my uncle provides.’’
It was learnt that the
family’s efforts to raise funds for her to undergo a surgery, had not yielded
any result.
A document, purportedly
issued by an Indian medical facility in Mumbai, Wockhardt Hospitals, dated July
2012, showed that the cost of the surgery was N3m, excluding her cost of
travel.
A non-governmental
organisation, Dot Human Development, was said to have written the Lagos State
Governor, Babatunde Fashola, requesting support for the victim.
The state’s Ministry of
Health, in another letter by the then Permanent Secretary, Dr. Femi Olugbile,
directed LASUTH management to do the surgery free of charge.
The letter, dated April
2013, reads in part,
“Afusat accidentally fell into boiling oil
during an epileptic attack six years ago. She sustained a third degree burns to
the face that healed with scarring and disfigurement of the face.
“Following a request, she
was referred to LASUTH for assessment and recommendation. The plastic surgeon
and the Ophthalmologist both confirmed that the corrective surgery can be done
in LASUTH.
“In view of the above, you
are kindly requested to carry out the surgery on the victim on compassionate
ground. Please forward the details of cost of management to the Ministry of
Health for consideration.”
A reaction to the letter,
dated July, 2013, however, said,
“The initial procedure in
this patient will involve the insertion of tissues which will be procured from
outside sources.”
The victim’s uncle, Ayinla,
said the LASUTH doctors explained to the family that they needed funds from the
state government to procure the tissue and without it, they would not be able
to do anything.
“We started going to the
state secretariat to see how they will give the LASUTH doctors the money, but
they kept directing us from one desk to the other. We were frustrated and we
had to leave the hospital,” he added.
When contacted, the Lagos
State Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, did not pick his call. A text
message sent to his phone had also yet to be replied to as of the time of
filing this report.
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