#SaveMayowa FundRaising Is Trailed By Controversy Involving Her Family

Some days ago, Nollywood actress, Toyin Aimakhu, spearheaded a campaign soliciting for funds for the treatment of a female fan, identified as Mayowa Shukura Ahmed, who was said to be on admission at LUTH.

Ahmed was previously admitted to Reddington hospital, Ikoyi, where she was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer.

See the medical report below…

Many blogs took up the campaign and the money, which was meant for the 28-year-old lady’s treatment abroad, was realised within three days. But there have been recent speculations that the entire campaign was a scam and that the lady’s family had only taken advantage of good samaritans.

The family, however, released a statement to debunk the scam allegations.

Read the statement below …

In a statement released on Friday, LUTH denied any knowledge of the campaign and said a definitive diagnosis of Ahmed had not been reached.

The statement read, “Mayowa Ahmed is an old patient of LUTH who has been on treatment for another condition. This 31-year-old lady came into the Private Wing of LUTH on Monday, 25th July, 2016 with a history and clinical features of an intra-abdominal mass. The family and the patient brought along some results of laboratory investigations ordered and done from outside LUTH.”

It read further, “Three different specialists were invited to review Mayowa. The Gynaecologist, Oncologist and Haematologist all arrived at a tentative diagnosis of an abdominal malignancy. They planned to conduct a series of fresh tests to confirm the definitive diagnosis since the earlier tests were neither requested nor authorised by any doctor from LUTH.

“The family, however, requested to fly Miss Ahmed outside the country barely 24 hours after her admission in LUTH, thus stalling all the planned investigations meant to arrive at a definitive diagnosis.

“We were able to transfuse her with much-needed blood only after lots of persuasion where the family was told point blank that it was risky for her to travel by air, given her low blood count.

“Today is the third day after admission and a definitive diagnosis has not yet been made while the relations insist, on their own, to carry her abroad.

“LUTH has only dealt with Miss Ahmed and her relations throughout her stay and not with any other third party. Contrary to any circulating information, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital did not refer Miss Ahmed overseas and the institution is not involved with any fund-raising activity or activist on her behalf.”

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