When Oladipo Faramade, a graduate of Urban and Regional Planning from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso graduated in 2007 with high hopes, she never thought that her aspirations and dreams could be cut short, even as she could not secure a befitting job.
After her service year at the Town planning section of the Ogun State Housing Corporation, with her determination to succeed and make ends meet, she quickly opted to train in tailoring and started teaching in a private secondary school, when no job was forthcoming from her course of training.
Today, in her forties and without a partner, her dreams of becoming a real estate developer, wife and mother could be cut short, if she is unable to secure the sum of N18m needed for a kidney transplant to save her life.
Faramade who at present is in a critical condition has emancipated and she is asking well spirited people to assist her by donating to foot her bill as she has no one to turn to.
In her state of health, Faramade, a native of Ogbomoso could not hide her cries as she is trying to be strong, she said, "life has not been same for her since she was diagnosed of renal (kidney) related disease with series of dialysis every week.
This takes her from Ogbomoso to Afe Babalola University Teaching Hospital in Ado-Ekiti for treatment on Tuesdays and Fridays of every week, as her boss had made provision for a vehicle and driver to be taking her ".
According to Faramade, "the dialysis have taken so much money from me that I have expended all I laboured for and sold virtually all my belongings. There is nothing my aged parents can do as I have turned into a burden , instead of helping them now at old age."
"I can only plead to God spirited people to give me another chance to live, now that the doctors say I have to do a kidney transplant since my conditions are deteriorating. Please, don't let me die, I have high hopes to live", Faramade said.
Though, she has seen a donor of organ but since she has no money to pay for both the organ and transplant, she is finding it hard to carry on with the process.
A friend of Faramade, Susan Awosoga who brought her case to Nigerian Newstrack, said "Faramade is a good friend and a wonderful woman with good heart.
She blamed, the Nigerian health system where life is not protected and valued above every other thing, saying "her friend is a victim of a country with no health insurance to save her first and worry about money later".
Awosoga said, "these are some of the expenses a government should take care to give citizens a sense of belonging and also save them from dying as it could be just anyone".
She also appealed to Nigerians to help save her friend by donating to her account with this details below: .
Account Name :Oladipo Faramade Yemisi
Account number: 0141324268
Bank: GTB
Further enquiries: +234 803 541 6016
+234 915 186 9448
