3 year old boy who drank acid has been abandoned in LUTH

 

Three-year-old Darasimi  Ogunwumi, who allegedly drank acid, seems to have been abandoned by the  authorities of the school where Darasinmi was said to have taken the  deadly substance, according to the mother, Darasimi has one surgery outstanding.    Mrs Toyin Ogunwumi told Sunday Vanguard, on Friday, that the authorities  of Fahsal Children School, Ilupeju Estate, Idiroko, Ogun State had not  visited her son since last November after he was admitted at the Lagos  University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, Lagos. 


According to the mother,  the only effort made by the school towards the boy’s recovery was the  N30,000 it sent to the family.  Efforts to reach the proprietress of the school, identified as Mrs  Fahsat Abubakar, at the weekend, to respond to Mrs Ogunwumi’s claim,  proved abortive as the person who picked Sunday Vanguard calls to her  phone, said she was not available.  

Meanwhile, the mother said Darasinmi was due for two surgeries last  week, saying one was done while the other was outstanding. Saying the  boy was responding to treatment, Mrs Ogunwumi said: ‘’We were told to do  some tests on him at Me Cure Health Centre, Oshodi. The results are  already with doctors. So, we are waiting for the next line of treatment  and the secondary surgery’’. 

The mother expressed her appreciation to  well-meaning Nigerians who had donated in aid of the treatment of  Darasimi, and added that the family would appreciate more donation as  the boy’s treatment was still far from being over. The victim,  recuperating at ward E4 of LUTH, was said to have, out of thirst, drank  acid in place of water in school’s laboratory while the Parent Teacher  Association(PTA) was on.