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Five-year-old in need of money for brain tumor removal
The family members of five-year-old Bibi Zaheeda Mohamed are pleading with the public for financial support which would aid her daughter’s lifesaving surgery.
In May 2011, the child was diagnosed with a brain tumour. A surgery was conducted the following month by Dr. Ivor Crandon at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). A significant portion of the mass was removed, and everything appeared to go well with the Mon Repos Nursery School student.
Bibi Zaheeda Mohamed
However, recently, while attending the follow up clinic, doctors found that the tumour has progressed, and advised further surgery.
This procedure is expected to be performed by Dr. Robert Ramcharan of the Saint Clair Medical Centre in Trinidad, sometime next month.
The overall cost of the trip, inclusive of surgery cost, traveling expenses, accommodation and meals was estimated at around $7M.
Relatives have been able to raise $1M, while the Ministry of Health has provided the family with a similar figure.
The child’s mother, Tyjawattie Mahadeo, was in tears yesterday as she related that nothing can be done for her little girl, unless Guyana helps her to raise the required finances.
“It is not easy at all to watch my daughter every day, knowing that she sick and we can’t do anything to save her life. We begging people to come forward and help us save our little girl,” the mother of two said.
The woman added that it hurts tremendously as parents “to know that we so strong, and she so little and got to go through all this…It ain’t easy.”
Zaheeda was three years old when she started to complain about pains in her head in the afternoons. However, it was when the child suffered a seizure that the family realized that something was wrong.
Mahadeo describes her daughter as being very jolly and active.
“She does wake up sometimes at four o’clock in the morning and wake up the whole household…she would say ‘mommy, daddy wake up, place bright, and that’s how she would mek we day start good, good,” the mother said, adding that the family would have to put a padlock on the gate, so as to ensure that the “busy-bodied” child doesn’t run out on the road.
Dr. Ramcharan who is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Medical Centre, in a letter to Zaheeda’s family, said that her condition is critical, and that surgery should be performed as soon as possible.
It was also asserted that the child may require a blood transfusion after the surgery. This, the family would have to fund as the Trinidad law allows only for citizens, or someone who has been living in the country for six months, to donate blood.
Following the surgery, the child would be required to spend an additional week at the medical facility, for the purpose of observation.
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