This serves as official update to Inform the Foundation’s Trustees and Partners of Smart’s Leg Ulcer.
Omosede Global Foundation continues treating all its patients through the Covid-19 and supporting families to get healthcare, including counselling, educating them on best practices and precautions.
Many of you who have followed up on the Foundation over the last year, know Smart. He had a leg ulcer which the foundation took responsibility for and has been treating for the last 15 months since May 23, 2019. His leg ulcer was 12 years old at the time we got him and had suffered setbacks over the same period due to mismanagement. The last five years of the same period Smart was responsible for treating himself. While treating himself a section of the tibia broke off.
The Foundation managed his leg with the best medicine both oral and topical preparations in treating the ulcer. We had good results and hopeful by the end of this year, Smart will have the surgery to straighten his leg which had contracted due to infection. The leg filled, muscles formed, and skin began to grow back. The outer part of his left thigh was doing well. The Foundation also pays for his rented room and utilities, while St. Vincent de Paul continue to assist with food, clothes and stipend until he was able to care for himself.
A month ago, the inner section of the leg where the bone broke off reopened exposing the bone. An x-ray was immediately ordered by the Foundation’s consultant, Dr. Kenneth Atoe to determine the integrity of the bone if it will hold Smart’s weight when he eventually stands. The x-ray showed that the entire length of the remaining bone was infected. The orthopedic specialist was immediately consulted who assessed the lesion and also reordered another x-ray of the thigh and discovered that the bone could not be saved, the bone was completely infected and was progressing towards the good bone in his thigh. Smart has been sick, unable to eat and lost weight. The orthopedic specialist recommended surgery (Above knee amputation) as the only way to save Smart’s life.
Smart’s condition deteriorates every day he does not get surgery and is in a lot of pain. We keep treating to prevent an acceleration of the infection until he gets surgery. The Foundation has counselled and explained to Smart his situation. Smart has agreed to surgery.
Please see the progressive deterioration of Smart’s left leg below.
We need your help to raise N600,000.00 (Six Hundred Thousand Naira). N500,000.00 will pay for surgery, medicine and hospital stay. N100,000.00 for his feeding and to adjust his living quarters to suit his new condition after surgery. We will also need to help with his basic needs until he can cope.
This is painful and sad. Smart put up a good fight and the Foundation did its best. It is important that Smart get surgery by August 9, 2020 or we will loose him.
To help Save Smart’s Life, please donate to
Omosede Global Foundation – UBA: 1022026867
Omololu O. Ojehomon, Chairman
Board of Trustees
