Girl, may lose sight due to wrong diagnosis

Fanny Owen, 20, is gradually losing her sight in both eyes after a wrong diagnosis led to wrong treatment in childhood, says the charity Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care, GIPLC. “Imagine someone gradually falling into darkness and remaining there forever,” the initiative said in an appeal Monday.“She and her family are trying really […]

Fanny Owen, 20, is gradually losing her sight in both eyes after a wrong diagnosis led to wrong treatment in childhood, says the charity Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care, GIPLC.

“Imagine someone gradually falling into darkness and remaining there forever,” the initiative said in an appeal Monday.
“She and her family are trying really hard to get her away from this eternal darkness that is trying to envelope her but financial circumstance is making their struggle futile.”
Owen has had poor vision since birth following use of traditional eye medication, said her doctors at University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, where she was taken four years ago.
Chemical burns from the medication caused her to develop leucoma, according to a medical report.
Doctors had prescribed tattoo contact lens, ultraviolet protection sunglasses and planned a referral to University College Hospital, Ibadan last March.
But GIPLC is starting a campaign to “raise money for her surgery in India, put at a tentative cost of N1.5 million.
“The good thing about her illness is that it can be corrected if treatment starts early and so it won’t be a waste of time, money and energy on your part if you choose to help,” the initiative said in a release Monday.