The Nigerian actor who is suffering from diabetes mellitus said he needs N3.5Million for eyes surgery.The blindness is from one of the complications of poorly controlled diabetes known as retinopathy where the blood vessels supplying the retina of the eyes are badly affected.
Bruno Iwuoha was a special guest on the radio station 104.5FM,Abuja in the Brekete Family Programme where he disclosed his predicament.He spoke about his problems with diabetes and he has been suffering from glaucoma for long without any money for surgery.Speaking further,he revealed the illness has caused him blindness.According to him,he was unaware he has the disease until he visited a hopsital after being severely attacked by thieves.The finding was incidental.He has been on drugs since then but the illness recently affected his sight.
He said:
“I’ve gone to so many places; within the country,outside the country for treatment, until finally…finally, the thing [diabetes] claimed one of my sight. As I look at you now, I’m using only one sight. They call that glaucoma. And gradually, it’s affecting the other one [eye]. So, naim make, apart from places…the people who call me atimes, both the little cash they can give me…drugs and all that…but I discovered that this thing [the illness] is a lifetime something.And it has robbed me of the job [acting]. And now, if I get a script, it will be hard for me to read it very well. And if I read it, if I strain my eyes for so long, it would look as if someone would lead me around the house or anywhere I want to go because it will affect the only one [eye]. So that’s my problem.”
Speaking further,he said he has been referred to a US hospital where N3.5million is needed for surgery.So far,he has raised only N200,000 and calls on well meaning Nigerians to assist him.
For those who want to help him,here are details: contact the Brekete Family at Suite F9, Sheriff Plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja or Call +234-80-33-22 11-49, BBM PIN: 2BD26968 -- Composite Start -->
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July 16, 2015
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