Parents of children with heart related diseases have cried to football legend Kanu Nwankwo and the federal government to come to their aids, saying that the cost of treating their children abroad is too high for them.
However, Kanu Nwankwo heart foundation has been turned into an agency center for Indian doctors due to inability to maintain it aims and objectives of the foundation which is as a result of hardship in the nation.
The former African footballer of the year, set up the foundation to help less privileges in Nigeria who couldn’t afford medical bill in heart related diseases.
The initial plan was to bring doctors from India to Nigeria or take some to India for surgery pending the magnitude of the treatment.
Information has it that Kanu has stop bringing India doctors to Nigeria because the last batch was done at Abuja national hospital 2019.
The Foundation could not maintain it plans of treatment by bringing doctors to Nigeria and turned it to agency of telling patient to come with ECG and Echo and scam it to India after payment.
The India doctor will report back to Kanu Nwankwo heart foundation with the cost for the treatment, the patient will ask to travel to India, pay flight ticket, medical Visa, treatment and accommodation depending the number of days it may take.
The foundation initial plan was to bring doctors to Nigeria for treatment, many who speaks to us beg Kanu Nwankwo to keep strict to his initial plan by bringing to doctors to Nigeria for the betterment of their children.
A patient who spoke under the anonymity said, “Many of us can’t afford flight ticket to India and we don’t want to lose our children, we are begging Kanu Nwankwo, government at all levels and philanthropist to come to our aid.
“Our children are too many with different heart related diseases, we want them to help us, since 2019, the doctors from India has not come to Nigeria, we are seriously waiting for them, it cheaper for us here in Nigeria than to go to India,” he said.
