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Regional News of Saturday, July 27, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-07-27
The 11 month old baby has a big abnormal head and a growth at the back.
Financial difficulties have forced a young couple from Abuoso, in Techiman, in the eastern Bono region, to give up treatment of their baby suffering from obstructive hydrocephalus at the hospital and resort to herbal medicine. .
The 11-month-old baby was diagnosed with an illness at Holy Family Hospital in Techiman and was scheduled for surgery to correct the defect.
Doctors at Komfo Anokye University Hospital warn that any further delay could aggravate the already complicated condition, which can only be corrected by surgery.
The joy of a young couple celebrating the birth of a child was short-lived when doctors detected an abnormal head and a growth on the baby's back a week later.
It was the beginning of a difficult moment for the young parents, who had not been at peace since, the neighbors stigmatizing them because of the condition of the child.
"I am so upset because I have never seen such a thing before, I am suffering deeply.The thought of the condition of the child always pulls me to tears.My first child should not I would be satisfied if it happened to a second child, "Mohammed Ananga Aishatu, mother of the baby, told Twi.
Some even suggest that parents end their lives cruelly with what they think is a "baby in the river." But the couple resisted the advice.
"Some people call it River Baby. Others also say that I drew it from the spirits of a deity. I am confused and do not know what to do. I became a laughing stock, "she added.
The jobless status of the couple means that they can not afford the child's treatment at the hospital.
The cost of treatment is estimated between 10,000 and 20,000 ¢.
"Sometimes I think about everything, the thoughts of who will take care of the baby in my absence haunt me," she said.
In desperation and frustration, parents resorted to herbal medicine to treat a condition that requires a scientific approach.
She says that little has changed since she looked for herbal treatment.
I met the herbalist, Abubakar Iddrisu, who was treating the small Rafiatu Iddrisu. Abubakar boasts of having cured this condition and several others.
He challenges the mother's claim that the baby has not seen any improvement.
"When they brought the child for the first time, she had a deformed head. Thank God, this has improved significantly after the application of the decoction. I think it will go well with time, "he insisted.
The parents organized what they called a "token" for the herbalist to treat the girl. They promised him a "thank you" later if he was able to successfully treat the girl.
Suspected folate deformity
Komfo Anokye University Hospital sees an average of 8 cases of hydrocephalus per month.
Doctors suspect that hydrocephalus has developed as a result of a folic acid deficiency during the first three months of pregnancy.
Dr. Dickson Bandoh, Senior Resident Head of Neurological Surgery at Komfo Anokye University Hospital, said that the child's health condition would escalate if he did not do it. ################################################### 39, subject of urgent attention.
"If this situation is left as it is, it literally means that the child's brain will not grow, which has its own implications for the development of the child." What to do, in reality, this is to eliminate the swelling of the back of the child and repair the excess water. " in the head."
Dr. Bandoh said that herbal medicine had no role to play in the care of the child's brain and spine, adding that surgery was the only solution to the child's structural problem.
It involves attaching a pipe (shunt) to the head to drain excess water into the child's stomach in order to reduce the pressure on the brain.
"If a structural problem is to be solved, it is clear that herbal medicine could not do it.So, in the case of this child, what the child needs, it is d & # 39; Surgery is the only way to go for this child. "Herbal medicine really has no role to play in caring for this child," says Dr. Bandoh.
Until, perhaps, the divine intervention comes, the fate of the baby will continue to fit in a balance.
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