A fourteen year old JHS 2 student of Lebanon International School in Tema, risk losing his sight if he does not receive immediate treatment on his eyes.
Michael Dadson woes started about seven years ago when his colleague in school threw a sharpened pencil at him and went straight into his eyes injuring him in the process.
According to the boy’s father, Alex Dadson, upon iniatial examination on his son at the Tema General Hospital he was referred to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. But had to continue with the treatment at the Christian Eye Centre.
He said medics from a German NGO visited Ghana and examined his son’s eye and concluded that he had to be operated in Tanzania at a cost of GHC85,000, which the NGO committed to pay half of the amount.
Mr Dadson was however unable to raise the other half of the cost for the scheduled operation to be done on his son’s eye. An American doctor, he said, later examined the boy and concluded that the condition of the latter’s eye had worsened and the intended operation in Tanzania was unnecessary as the boy will eventually go blind in the period ahead.
“Just as the American Doctor said, after one month, my son’s sight went off, he couldn’t see again. The eye ball begun to push in little by little until it only a small part of it could be seen. He was given a referral note to Korle Bu where upon being treated he was given spectacles to wear. After wearing the glasses for a while, doctors decided that an artificial eye should be fixed for him which caused GHC1,500.”
Mr Dadson who is financially constrained is currently seeking for public support to have his son treated as the other eye has also become affected. According to him, efforts to solicit for financial help from the school has proved futile.
Meanwhile, the boy’s condition has affected his studies.
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