The 2015 Baby of the Year in Lagos State, Oluwajomiloju Goodness Ogundimu, has returned from India after undergoing another successfully heart surgery.
Ogundimu, who was diagnosed with a heart defect at birth, had lost her mother, Sherifat, a chartered accountant, to the cold hands of death four minutes after her delivery.
Her grandmother, Alhaja Afolake Ogunnoiki, who has been caring for her, was with her on Tuesday in Alausa to thank Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for also sponsoring the child to India for the second time to undergo the surgery.
Ogunnoiki said: “We were in India, where we were referred to for an operation.
“Before we could not go for the second operation, the child (Oluwajomiloju) was not doing well like in the past.
“If she eats, she would vomit.
“I spent all I had on various medical tests.
“I discovered that she was not growing and developing normally.
“After one year, I was praying fervently to God not to allow our father, Governor Ambode forget us.
“Then I got a call that we were going to India for an operation.
“It was like I won a lottery because I had nobody except God.
“In India, we were supposed to spend only three days.
“We discovered that the child had developed tissue again, which is another hole in the heart.
“I became so perplexed because I don’t know anybody in India, but I was assured by the doctors there.
“But I am amazed and full of thanks because as the Governor was called, he gave his approval within 24 hours for the operation to be undertaken.
“We were there for eight days.”
Ogunnoiki, was full of thanks to the Governor for picking interest in her grand daughter’s challenges.
She said: “I am just a child of an ordinary farmer.
“I am not a politician.
“I don’t know both Governor Ambode and his wife personally.
“I have never met them personally; I have only seen them in photographs on papers and television screens.”
Ogunnoiki said the child will be due for another surgery in August next year, adding that the doctors have assured her that it would be the last operation to finally correct the heart defect.
She said: “I am appealing to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode because that would be the third and final operation.
“I saw others who also came and had theirs.
“The child was named Oluwajomiloju from when she was six months old in the womb by her late mother.
“She is Governor Ambode and Mrs. Ambode’s daughter.
“God only said I should be the one to nurse her for them.”
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