12/07/2024
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On the 27th of May, I came back to you (my awesome Fbk family) with a request, asking for help for a little boy Bright Nana Kwame Oduro Dei who I tried to help in the year 2020 but COVID crashed our campaign. Link pasted above.
You gave me the money I asked for (GHs 8,700) and I paid the money to Dr Agarwal Eye Hospital (Scanned receipt posted). After making the payment, I called his parents to take him to the hospital to get him booked for the surgery.
2 days later, I called the mother to ask if she had been to Dr. Agarwal’s Hospital, I was told Nana Kwame wasn’t feeling too well and he complained of body aches. I asked her to take him to a nearby hospital to get medical attention but somehow, she didn’t take him. After a few days, I called back and they still hadn’t seen a Doc. I suspected the issue was financial so I sent her some money to take him to the hospital. I followed up with calls and the mum said they went to the hospital and he was diagnosed with malaria. Again, I sent them money to buy his medications.
The next time I called to check on the boy to see if he was well and good enough to go for the anaesthesia assessment before surgery, this time the father told me the boy had developed cold feet of some sort. Whenever surgery was mentioned, he got scared and didn’t want to go through with it. I went ahead to find out who the psychologist in the hospital was and I made arrangements for the parents to take him to the hospital to see the psychologist.
I called the mum to take him to see the psychologist and she asked me if I had spoken to the father. At that point, I suspected something wasn’t right.
A few minutes later I got a call from the man who led this family to me for help. He said he had just called Nana Kwame's mother and she said there was an issue which she couldn’t tell me so she narrated their story to this man to pass on to me.
NOW THE STORY
They had taken Nana Kwame to some church for divine intervention/healing and the pastor at the church said Nana Kwame’s condition wasn’t a medical one but rather spiritual so there’s no need to go to the hospital. He was going to show them some leaves to go pluck and rub over the boys' eyes and the pain would go. He would be healed. The parents went ahead with the pastor's instruction, found the leaves, rubbed them over the boy's eyes and the boy said the pain had subsided so the parents decided they wouldn’t go to the hospital for surgery again. They want to trust the pastor.
However, if after 2 months the pastor’s further instructions don’t work and Nana Kwame’s condition doesn’t improve, then they will come back to the hospital for surgery.
This pastor (so-called man of God) has managed to convince Nana Kwame’s parents not to take him to the hospital for surgery.
We have done our bit. God knows we tried.
I have however put in a request for a refund of the money I paid (GHs 8,700) to the hospital. With your (donors) kind permission, I’d like to use this money to take care of other children who genuinely need help or I can also return the money to you.
I’m standing by for your advice.
I am really saddened by the turn of events.
This is a legally registered Charity/ NGO that focuses primarily on CHILD HEALTH and EDUCATION oper
