Eniola Adepitan 9, and Omolara Onibudo 22, are not family members, fortune has brought them together in their mission for wellness.
Adepitan has cancer of the Bone, while Onibudo has cancer of the Lip.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro on Monday in Magboro, Ogun State, Onibudo said her guardians had used lots of naira on her yet her situation remains.
She pointed out, “In May 2010, I uncovered that I had a wound on my top lip at that point I began hemorrhaging from the damaged lip. I visited Epe General Medical center, Epe, Lagos State, after which I was referred to the Lagos College Teaching Medical facility.
“After undergoing different tests and medical examinations, I was diagnosed with cancer of the lips. Due to the fact that my parents are aged and have since stopped working, my siblings are the ones doing the running around for me. They have spent hundreds of thousands of naira they borrowed from people and unfortunately, there is no hope of getting more money.”
Nine-year-old Eniola’s instance is likewise bad. Her right leg has been severed. Eniola’s mother, Dorcas Adepitan, claimed her daughter returned to the house on July 12, 2012, grumbling that she hit her leg on a desk in school located in Bariga.
Dorcas claimed, “I took her to hospital for check-up when she returned from school that day. After doing X-rays, the physician stated she neither had fracture nor displacement on her leg.
“When she continuously experienced pains on her leg we went back to the medical center and medical examinations and more CT-scans exposed that she had lumps and some malignant developments in the affected right leg.”.
Dorcas, a paltry trader, stated her little girl was later diagnosed with cancer of the bone. When her condition worsened, she said specialists in LUTH advised that Eniola’s right leg be cut off.