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Girl, 5, dies days before scheduled brain surgery
Five-year-old Bibi Zaheeda Mohamed, whose relatives, via this newspaper, had pleaded with the public for financial support to facilitate the removal of a brain tumour, has died.
According to relatives, the child went to sleep comfortably at around 20:00hrs on Tuesday last, but never awoke.
“Is when dey try fuh wake she up around 2 ‘o’ clock the morning fuh she feed, that dem realize she dead,” a female relative told Kaieteur News.
Bibi Zaheeda Mohamed
Time was not in the child’s favour, as she died a mere nine days before her surgery scheduled for August 29.
Most of the funds have already been utilised, and all arrangements had been put in place for the operation in Trinidad, the relative said.
After little Bibi was diagnosed with a brain tumour in May 2011, a surgery was conducted the following month at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), where a significant portion of the mass was removed, and all seemed to have been going well with the Mon Repos Nursery School student.
However, several weeks ago while attending the follow-up clinic, doctors found that the tumour had progressed, and advised further surgery, a procedure that the child did not survive to undergo.
The child’s mother, Tyjawattie Mahadeo, had visited this newspaper last month, pleading for Guyana’s financial assistance in saving her daughter who needed immediate surgery. Mahadeo had described her daughter as being very jolly and active.
A funeral service is expected to be conducted sometime this week.
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