One Samba Bah of Bansang, a seven-year old boy, is in urgent need of overseas treatment. Suffering from a cancer on his left eye, he has been, for a very long time, in a lot of pain.

According to the medical report, Samba Bah was admitted to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul on the 30th of June, 2008 and is still under admission. He was referred from the regional eye hospital to the Paediatric Neurology Clinic with a six-month history of painful progressive haemorrhagic destructive over growth lesion involving the left eye ball.

This was accompanied a month ago by a progressive painful swelling of the right and left jaw. The report further stated that  “there was no bleeding diathesis or yellowness of the eyes”.

On evaluation, the report went on, Samba was noted to be pale with no digital cubbings. He looked chronically ill with bilateral significant tender cervical submandibular lymphadenitis, with right sided lymph nodes affected more than the left side.

Meanwhile, he is undergoing an indepth evaluation including a multiple targeted tissue that involved field metastatic lymph node biopsy. Thus, he will need debunking surgery, truct lymph node excisional biopsy, left orbital cavity exenteration, field radiotherapy and intensive multimodal chemotherapy, which, according to the repor,t will not be achievable here for now.

The child’s father, Makam Bah, appealed to the general public to help his son. You can contact the following numbers to render assistance: 9829577/7988106/7437802/9800244.