70,000 Pounds Raised for Ama Sumani’s Children
March 25, 2008
Some seventy thousand pounds raised to support the treatment of Ama Sumani, the terminally-ill Ghanaian cancer patient who was controversially deported from the United Kingdom will be used to support her children.
Madam Sumani died yesterday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where she was undergoing dialysis. Her inability to get access to a particular medication, thalidomide to prolong her life is believed to have hastened her death.
The drug is not available in Ghana. The thirty-nine year old diedhours after being told that friends and family had found doctors in the UK and South Africa to treat her.
Jeannette Simmons a friend of the deceased who has been at the heart of the fundraising drive told the super morning show, she was upset that she passed despite her efforts to help keep her alive.
Mrs Simmons, from Cardiff, who returned from spending a month in Ghana on Sunday, said they had just found a doctor in South Africa and another in the UK who would treat terminally-ill Ms Sumani with the drugs.
“We told her this morning but this afternoon she gave up,” she said.
A campaign to allow Ms Sumani to return to the UK for treatment and to raise funds to help her had been backed by people across the country.
Madam Simmons says pledged to take personal responsibility for 16-year-old Mary and seven-year old Samede, the two children left behind by the widowed mother.
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