An 11-year-old student of Federal Government College, Gusau, Zamfara, has been diagnosed with a rare heart condition, which would be possible to fix after an estimated N3.47 million corrective surgery.
Ifeoma Igbo (pictured) was born with patent ductus arterosus (PDA) – a congenital heart condition that has left an open hole at the top of her heart.
A consultant paediatric cardiologist at Usman Danfodio University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Dr Usman Sani, narrated that the girl has been hospitalized with a “history of difficulty in breathing and lower respiratory tract infection during infancy and early childhood.”
Nothing can be done to help her locally, therefore the girl was referred her to Madras Medical Mission in Chennai, India, for surgery.
The father of the girl, Donatus Igbo, a technician based in Zamfara, revealed that the condition has hugely disrupted his daughter’s schooling. He hopes the foreign surgeons would make things right for Ifeoma.
It would be recalled that last year a two-year-old girl with PDA has successfully underwent corrective surgery at Garki Hospital in Abuja.
PDA results when a major vessel at the top of heart crucial to breathing and feeding in foetuses fails to close after birth.
The condition puts a strain on the heart, causing shortness of breath and an increased risk of cardiac arrest.
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