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Woman, 50 with bones illness cries for urgent medical help

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-And says “I needs quick Money to settle my Rental Obligation”

A fifty-year-old woman who hails from Kanweaken in River Gee County, who is suffering from chronic cold in the bones, needs an urgent medical treatment abroad.

Madam Lucy Wesseh, a resident of Lakpazee community behind the famous Anthony shopping Center at Sinkor Airfield in Monrovia, has sounded an urgent appeal to President George M. Weah, Liberians at home and abroad, charitable entities and embassies near Monrovia for assistance.

The middle age woman made the appeal in an interview with this Reporter recently at her Lakpazee residence in one of Monrovia’s poverty- stricken settlements.

According to Madam Wesseh, she first sought treatment at Tuberculosis Annex (TB) in Congo Town and was referred to the John F. Kennedy Medical Center for further examination.

Medical findings from the JFK hospital revealed that Madam Wesseh is suffering from chronic cold in her bones and needs specialized treatment abroad.

She added that at the JFK, she followed all the processes and drugs were prescribed and provided by the medical personnel to Madam Wesseh for onward treatment.

In an attempt to secure a chair for the exclusive interview with a local daily last, Madam Wesseh fell on the hard ground and took about fifteen minutes to get up.

Besides, she observed of finding it very difficult to walk fast or normal owing to bad nature of the cold in her bones and other parts of her body.

However, she intimated that the drugs provided by the JFK medical personnel had not yielded any tangible results and her condition continues to encounter more difficulties.

She told the newspaper that she currently lives in a rented house and had been able to meet her rental obligations to the house owner for the past several months.

“I must admit that Iam really under serious pressure to settle my rental arrears and the proprietor has reminded me and issued several notices for a possible eviction from my present place,” Madam Wesseh lamented.

For Heaven sake, she explained that if she is medically fit, the elderly woman intoned, she has business skills to do business and help herself under the present circumstances.

Besides, Madam Wesseh noted that during civil war, she got separated from her husband and as a result, the husband died and had been left vulnerable to struggle for survival in Monrovia.

“My current place of residence in Lakpazee community is in a very deplorable condition and during the heavy rains in our country, roof of my room leaks from all directions causing me more miseries and hardship,” Madam Wesseh beamed with tears.

She however pointed out that President Weah, members of the Cabinet, charitable organizations and Liberians at home and abroad may channel their assistance through the below mobile phone numbers.

(+231 770 324 162), (+231 886 812 888) and (+231 777 472 772)  

Report by Edwin Fayia, III

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