Thursday, November 27, 2008


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12/11/2008: The story of Fuh Bright Afangwei can hardly be told without holding back tears.
Born of 23-year, Fuh Godwill and 21-year Ambesso Gladys, the story of this 4-year little boy started in 2006 when the child complained of right eye pain. The parents whose monthly income can be estimated at 25000 FRS CFA ($50) instantly took their first son in quest of a proper diagnosis.After criss-crossing a numbers of health centres in the small locality of Bafut where they lived, the boy was later referred to Acha Annex in Bafoussam, a Hospital reputed for treating relatively complicated eye problems.Godwill and Gladys welcomed the doctor’s proposal to carry out a surgery on the sick eye; they even braved the financial cost involved in the treatment.Bright’s right eye was operated upon; that was to begin a new page in the medical history of this little boy who was just two at the time.Four months after the operation, Bright’s mother recounts that the skin around the eye progressively bloated.Several consultations at other medical centres proved fruitless, and Gladys and Godwill cried aloud for help.The Director of the Bamenda Provincial Hospital heard the cry of desperation and referred Bright to the Obstetric, Gynaecological Hospital Yaoundé.In his referral letter of 23rd October 2008, the Director noted that the child had been diagnosed with Right Orbital Tumour.Since then, this family from Bafut, a rural area in the North West Province , is painfully subjected to the odds of Yaoundé, the capital city.The burden is heavy but they still cling on hope even though, there have been no apparent improvement on the child, so far.Close to six weeks after this new adventure, no solution seems to be insight and as one of our readers indicated, the clock is ticking faster for Bright and the confused Gladys and Godwill now depend on people of goodwill to give them more reason to hope.

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