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.
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