In October 2022, Esther Alangdi who was preparing porridge for her now two-year-old boy had an epileptic attack that will later make her a pale shadow of her former self.
Esther was full of life and looked naturally stout, as her previous pictures show a young lady beaming with smiles.
The young lady, who could pose for a picture or probably spend a lot of time facing the mirror to dress for the day’s activities as many ladies would do, can no longer afford to look at her present state in the mirror. She is virtually scared of her image.
An attempt to do so will leave her crying the whole day. Scared to look at herself in the mirror, Esther is traumatized by people avoiding her because of her condition, and children immediately cry and run away upon seeing her face.
She sustained severe injury to her face, eyes, neck, and shoulder areas after the Epileptic attack made her fall straight into a burning coal pot with boiling water.
Before she could be rescued, she had sustained serious damage to the upper part of her body.
She has her chin held to her chest, her left eye seriously injured, and a face and neck full of scars and this has left her unable to raise her head or turn her neck as any person would do.
She takes a lot of time to eat solid food. Esther tells me she drinks water using a straw. Esther narrated how she got injured and her ordeal of having to deal with pain constantly.
“I was preparing my son’s porridge and I fainted and fell on the fire. Nobody was around,” she recalled the accident that led her to her current predicament.
“I was taken to Tamale Teaching Hospital but my family cannot afford the 18,500 cedis for me to undergo the surgery. I always use straw to drink water and if I am going to eat, I can sit for long because I can only eat small mussels. Sometimes when wake up in the morning, I can’t get up. My uncle will have to come and help to get up because if I try to get up, my neck is always paining,” she said sobering.
A letter from the Tamale Teaching Hospital Diagnosed her with Multiple Severe contractors (post burns) requiring specialist care at the Plastic Unit of the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
The entire cost of the surgery, which is GH¢18,500 involves neck release, which amounts to GH¢11,000, medication that will cost GH¢2,000, ectropion release costing GH¢1,500, and GH¢4,000 for muscleneus.
Being unable to afford it, Esther, a Junior High School graduate, who resides in Pwalugu in the Talensi District with her uncle but comes from Tanzui in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region, says she had intended to learn dressmaking once the child stopped breastfeeding until the unfortunate event. She is, therefore, appealing for public support to undergo the surgery. “I’m just begging everyone to help me to pay for my surgery,” She pleaded.
Persons, who wish to support her to get the surgery done, could kindly send their donations via mobile money to 0539969882. The Name on the Momo is Nambirigya Nicholas Azebire.
