Gas explosion survivor’s father laments neglect, rising medical costs   

Nearly 2 months aft a devastating state detonation astatine a Filling Station successful the Edibe-Edibe country of Calabar South Local Government Area, the begetter of a seven-year-old subsister has cried retired implicit what helium described arsenic abandonment and the crushing fiscal load of his daughter’s treatment.

The victim, Happiness Ekere, suffered terrible burns successful the March 20 detonation and has remained connected admittance astatine the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH, wherever doctors proceed efforts to prevention her life.

Her father, Mr. Anietie Ekere, said the household has been near to conflict the concern alone, alleging that neither the filling presumption absorption nor its proprietor has reached retired to them since the incidental occurred.

Speaking emotionally with journalists, Ekere said helium has struggled regular to conscionable the increasing aesculapian demands required for his daughter’s treatment.

According to him, doctors often inquire the household to acquisition drugs and aesculapian supplies extracurricular the hospital, expenses helium said person go overwhelming for him arsenic a casual labourer surviving connected irregular income.

“Some days I walk adjacent to N10,000 conscionable connected medicine alone,” helium said. 

“That does not adjacent see proscription oregon feeding. I americium lone trying my champion to support my girl alive.”

He disclose...