UNBELIEVABLE: 13-Years-Old Boy Born With No Reproductive O*gan(PHOTO)
This is what we
call incredible and unbelievable. Since he was born March 5, 2000,
13-year-old Uchenna Ekezie has lived with a genital deformity. He was
born with what is described in medical parlance as maldeveloped external
genitalia. In lay terms, he has no visible external male reproductive
organs whatsoever. All he has to show is a rudimentary stump that is
less than an inch long. No thanks to this congenital abnormality,
Uchenna can not urinate normally,. Worse still, his hopes of
biologically fathering children in the future currently hang in the
balance. Although Uchenna, who hails from the Ejike Ezekie family of
Umuariam Obowo LGA of Imo State, has undergone series of major surgeries
at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, he requires a total of N4.5
million to undergo two more outstanding surgeries to
complete his restoration.
complete his restoration.
The first surgery
is for correction of the continuous dripping of urine, while the second
surgery is for elongation of the rudimentary stump. It was gathered that
in the attempt to to correct the birth defect, Uchenna suffered further
damage in certain veins and arteries around his genital area. A medical
evaluation by an IndianHospital in Abuja sent to FortisEscortsHospital,
New delhi, India, from the Department of Surgery, Federal Medical
Centre, QueenElizabethHospital, Umuahia, explained that Uchenna had the
first surgery eight days after birth. In the report, signed by Dr. E.N.
Agwu on behalf of Dr. G.U. Ugbam, the Chief Consultatnt Paediatric
Surgeon, the procedure, known as posterior iliac osteotomy, was followed
by the repair of the exomphalons at two months of age, and followed to
months later by repair of epispadias.
At four months of
age, Uchenna had a herniotomy and bladder augmentation at six months.
All surgeries wer carried out at the FMC, Umuahia. Uchenna’s father,
Celestine, told Good Health Weekly that efforts to seek financial
assistance from the ImoState government has not yielded fruit. Speaking
through the Queen of Peace Catholic Church, Umuariam, Obowo, LGA,
Celestine observed that an estimated bill of $12,000 (about N2 million)
has been issued by the hospital for the corrective surgery, but observed
that an additional N2.5 million was being sought to cover medicals,
return tickets, evaluations, tests and post surgeries and
rehabilitation. The Indian hospital is all set to correct this
abnormality and restore Uchenna’s external genitalia to normal, but the
obvious financial constraint is a stumbling block. Lamenting his son’s
plight, Celestine appealed for urgent financial assiatance to enable the
life-saving surgeries to commence.
“We have no kobo or
even a fraction of this amount. Already we have spent all we have on
his treatment and the family is broke. I even had to sell off all the
cement bocks I moulded to build about four rooms, as well as the old car
I was managing to provide for my family. We are now completely
dependent on the response of generous Nigerians to help out. Please help
provide Uchenna with a better quality of life and offer us hope in
humanity.”
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