TOUCHING: Check out story of 10-month old baby who risks permanent blindness

The mother of a 10-month-old baby has cried for help from Nigerians in order for the baby to see
with his two eyes.

The mother of the baby, Funmilayo Oladiran, told
our correspondent in Osogbo on Thursday that doctors had told her that the baby, Sodiq, might
lose his two eyes if something urgent was not done to correct the defect in the eye which was
increasingly bulging out of its socket due to cataract.
Funmilayo, who is from Ejigbo in Osun State, said
she was a petty trader and that her husband and
herself had no one to turn to for help.
Funmilayo added that all the efforts they had made
to raise money for the baby’s treatment had been
futile while calling on Nigerians to help them.

She said, “One of his eyes is bulging out and he cannot see with the eye. Sodiq is 10 months old
and this started not long after I gave birth to him.

“We took him to LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo. Two surgeries were carried out on him
but I was told that there remains an operation to be
carried out to stop the cataract from spreading to
the other eye and for him to see.
“I don’t want him to go blind but I don’t have
money to go for any treatment again. That is why I
am calling on anybody who can assist us to save
my baby from blindness.
“We need financial assistance to enable us take
him to a hospital for further treatment. I will be
happy if Nigerians can just help to make my baby
to see well again.”
The mother said that there was no history of eye
problem in neither her family nor her husband’s
family.