Nigeria: I Battled With Mind Tumour

Nigerian medical skilled, Dr. Chinonso Egemba higher often called Aproko Physician, has revealed his well being battle with mind tumour.

He made this identified by way of a video he shared on his Fb web page on Monday, the place he recalled how he needed to battle for his life all through the final month.

In keeping with Aproko Physician, on December 5, he was identified with a mind tumor, which left him partially blind.

Within the video shared together with his over two million Twitter followers, the medical skilled additionally spoke of his highway to restoration and the way Tayo Ojo, a Nigerian-based neurosurgeon, has been instrumental within the journey.

He wrote. “All through December of 2022, I used to be preventing for my life. Immediately I stand right here earlier than you to share my story. It has been an extended highway to restoration however every day is healthier than the final,”

“I used to be an MC at an occasion on the first of December with a fellow physician speaking about how analysis in Africa has helped Pharmacy.

“I used to be having one of many complications that I’ve all the time had. It is one in all these complications but it surely wasn’t getting any higher… I instructed my spouse, I believe there’s one thing unsuitable with this eye and the very first thing she mentioned was God forbid. And I mentioned amen and went to the mattress.

“On December third, that was my mum’s birthday… I went to the highest view of the sector and I saved attempting to examine myself as a health care provider and I closed this (proper eye) and I realised I could not see with this (left) eye. I referred to as my ophthalmologist (a medical physician who specialises in eye and imaginative and prescient care) that I am unable to see.

“When the outcomes of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging got here out, they mentioned on the fifth of December that I had a tumour sitting in my head. It was sitting on the optic gland round this eye and was additionally affecting this (proper eye). To the purpose the place this (left eye) I could not see with it and it was additionally closing.

“Then due to the place of the tumour and the peak and the way dangerous it was at that time, they mentioned they should undergo the cranium. They needed to open the cranium, take out the piece of the cranium utterly, undergo the mind in order that they will know what they wish to do. It felt like my entire life had ended

In a follow-up publish, the physician mentioned a lot of his followers suggested him to hunt medical consideration exterior Nigeria however he stayed again as a result of “I nonetheless had belief in us”.

“It was Dr. Tayo Ojo, a neurosurgeon right here in Nigeria that did the surgical procedure. So many individuals begged me to depart the nation and get the surgical procedure achieved however one thing saved me again right here as a result of I nonetheless had belief in us. We simply want extra funding in our well being sector,” he added.

“There have been individuals who requested me why I did the surgical procedure in Nigeria. In some unspecified time in the future, I had no reply for them as a result of I simply assume that we have now good palms right here.

“It wasn’t essentially the funds. I believe it is extra about belief. I didn’t belief the overseas medical doctors I used to be going to see. However I knew that we might do it right here.”