The Spectator story yields result …teacher confined to wheel chair gets support for surgery abroad

A physically ‘incapacitated’ but a dedicated female teacher whose condition was highlighted by The Spectator, not long ago, has got financial support from some well-meaning individuals and institutions to seek further medical care abroad.

Ms Felicia Kwakye, 51, is presently at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in, Stanmore, London for medical care.

“For the first time in many months, I am able to climb to the first floor of the house where I am currently recuperating”, she said.

The teacher was confined to a wheel chair due to complications of post poliomyelitis.

Ms Felicia Kwakye after undergoing her first total knee replacementsaid, “thesurgery has straightened my bow leg and twisted foot and this has made me so happy. The pains in my cervical and lumbar spines have reduced drastically and I am presently undergoing an intensive physiotherapy session to aid my mobility.”

She is extremely grateful to everyone that helped raise the money including the Holy Child School Old Students Association.

The Spectator covered a story with the headline “Polio confines female teacher to wheel chair, she needs urgent help to undergo surgery”.

By God’s grace and the help of well-meaning individuals and institutions, Ms Felicia Kwakye’s first part of the surgery costing £18, 400.00 aside physiotherapy expenses, (which is £375 a week) has been successfully done in London.

She will be due for another surgery on the left leg which will take place in three to four months, at a cost of £16, 000.00(minus the post-surgery care).

She, therefore, appeals to all well-meaning individuals and institutions to again help her raise the money for her next surgery to enable her to walk and work to contribute her quota to national development.

Any financial help to Ms Felicia Kwakye can be sent to Mobile Money 0244092136. Name of the account holder is Anastasia Adoma Kenyah.

By Portia Hutton-Mills