This
is the touching story of a boy whose lips and tongue is growing too
fast for his face that it might soon cover his entire face soon.
Prosper Mathe
One-year-old Zimbabwean boy is in
desperate need for help. The boy identified as Prosper Mathe suffers
from a debilitating facial deformity which is making his lips growing
rapidly.
Prosper Mathe was a happy, healthy baby before his parents noticed that his lower lip and tongue was growing rapidly.
Doctors diagnosed him with haemangioma, a benign, non-cancerous
tumour of the endothelial cells, but the poor family have no money to
pay for an operation.
Prosper's tongue is so large that it threatens to suffocate him,
which forced doctors to cut off the tip. However they were unwilling to
operate on his lower lip unless the family paid, Dailymail reports.
According to his mother Moditor Shoko and father, Gilfred Mathe,
they are very worried and desperately in need of help. They have no
money and cannot foot the bills.
His father said that after failing to find doctors that could help
them in Zimbabwe, they moved to South Africa but had been unable to come
up with the cash needed for the treatment.
They have found a hospital in township of Tembisa in Gauteng
Province, in north-east South Africa, willing to carryout an operation
to save the little boy and the amount is £1,300 which they can't afford.
A local Tembisan journalist Jantji Ngwenyama who broke the story hopes that people would help save the life of the little boy.
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