Little Kehinde Needs N700,000 To Save His Life

With handsome features betrayed by an enlarged head, four and half year old Kehinde Yusuf looks on as his parents explain how they need to raise almost N700,000 to save his life within a couple of weeks.
Precisely, he needs N652,000 (N432,000 for CT Scan and N220,000 for Angiography) for an operation at the University College Hospital in Ibadan that will enable him live a normal life, walk, talk, play and learn like his twin brother, Taiwo Yusuf.
With many of his mates already in school, Kehinde Abdulraheem Yusuf is unable to talk, walk, stand, sit or even crawl. He has no neck control and has to be carried at whenever he is not lying down as his head has grown almost three times bigger than that of a four year old, far beyond what his body can endure.
His ailment, hydrocephalus, a medical condition also known as “water on the brain”, in which there is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the ventricles, or cavities, of the brain. This may cause increased intracranial pressure inside the skull and progressive enlargement of the head, convulsion, tunnel vision, and mental disability. Hydrocephalus can also cause death. Although it does occur in older adults, it is more common in infants.
Doctors at the University College Hospital, Ibadan had in May 2012 performed a surgery on little Kehinde to stop the expansion and eventual rupture of his brain, but he still needs another surgery to help him live a normal active life.
His father, Isiaka sells phones and cell phone recharge cards in the suburb of Ibadan while his auxiliary nurse mother, Rasheedat Yusuf, is currently out of job to take care of the little boy. Isiaka explained that doctors had told him three weeks ago that the operation which had been delayed for some time now has now become urgent and must be carried out this month.
Little Kehinde’s father, in an emotion ladened voice lamented that he has not been able to raise the needed sum for the operation and has now resorted to seeking for help from the public to raise the N652,000 for the operation, which must be done in this month of May.