Life for three-year-old Darasimi Ogunwunmi has become a daily dose of agony and struggles for survival.
Clinging to life at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba Lagos, Darasimi’s survival has been due to his sheer will to live, doctors say.
At the moment, doctors have said Darasimi would require another round of surgery for the repair of his throat and stomach which cumulatively would cost about N2.5m.
The bouncing and active little boy, whose parents referred to as the joy of their lives, has been reduced to a sack of bone and skin as he is being fed through a tube on his hospital bed.
Few months ago, Darasimi was a normal kid running to school and running back home into the arms of his mother; today he cannot even drink water.
In November 2015, Darasimi, a Kindergarten One pupil of Fahsal Children’s School, Ilupeju Estate, Idiroko, Ogun State, drank caustic soda left lying carelessly around his class while he was thirsty.
Saturday MEDIA learnt that the proprietor of Fahsal, Mrs. Fausat Abubakar, recently added soap making into her line of business but rather than remove the production far from the reach of her pupils, the soap is being produced right beside their classrooms.
On November 19, the worst happened when Darasimi became thirsty and his teachers turned a deaf ear to his incessant cry for water.
Source: Media Nigeria
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