SHANNISE DZOBO
MASVINGO-Three year old Nenyasha Chobore from Masvingo who drank a cleaning detertegeant requires US$9 370 to undergo an urgent surgery so that she can be able tofeed properly.
Her father and mother cannot afford the kind of money required as they forked out a lot of money for her two previous operations last year.
Munyaradzi Chibore, Nenyasha’s father said the money is to enable their daughter undergo a special surgery of thoracotomy and exusions of esophagus stricture which can only be done in Harare.
He told The Midweek Watch that the child underwent two surgeries in a week last year after she drank a corrosive oven cleaner which contained sodium hydroxide unknowingly at their homestead and since then she has been having difficulties in eating, swallowing and they are feeding her through a tube.
“Since December 2022 she has been feeding using a tube (feeding Jejunostomy) while we were looking for a solution to her problem. We were referred to a Specialist Pediatrician who then said she now require an urgent surgery to open her throat since she is now failing to swallow both saliva and mucus.
“The Doctor further advised that if the oesophagus completely blocks respiratory infection is going to follow which will require an even more complicated surgery. The surgery is scheduled end of this May 2023,” he said
“Nenyasha drank an oven cleaner last year and she has been operated twice last year to cut the part that had been damaged by the acidic detergent but the problem came in December when she started having difficulties in swallowing the food and we had to resort to feeding her through the tube as a short term solution hoping that the situation would change, unfortunately it did not,” said Chibore.
“Recently the doctor advised us to come back for another surgery so that she stops feeding her through the tube and eat in a normal way.
The surgery requires US$9 370 and we have nowhere to get that kind of money therefore we are kindly asking to the business community and the public in general to help us to give our child a normal life,” appealed Chibore.
Masvingo Urban Ward 10 Councilor, Sengerayi Manyanga also appealed to the business community at large and the people of Masvingo to help the child so that she leads a normal life.
“I am begging to the business community at large to help this child who has endured a lot of pain so that she lives a normal life like any other child,” said Manyanga.
For those that need to get in touch and give assistance they should call on M Chibore (father) 0774 055583/0774392709 and Esinath Ngomba (mother) 0779906226 and the father’s account number is Munyaradzi Chibore; Steward Bank Account Number: 1001296449 (RTGS), 1049718779 (NOSTRO).
