Former Student of Kintampo SHS Now Physician Assistant Bedridden; Needs GH¢10K For Surgery to Remove Tumour

Former Student of Kintampo SHS Now Physician Assistant Bedridden; Needs GH¢10K For Surgery to Remove Tumour

  • Sylvester Dery, a former student of Kintampo Senior High School, has been diagnosed with a tumour in his right thigh
  • The Ghanaian physician assistant needs a minimum of GH¢10,000 to undergo urgent surgery to remove it
  • Dery's laboratory report (biopsy) revealed that the tumour could be cancerous and needs to be removed as soon as possible

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A former student of Kintampo Senior High School, Sylvester Dery, has been compelled to put his life on hold after doctors found a tumour in his right thigh.

Dery needs to undergo urgent surgery to remove the abnormal mass of tissue, which a laboratory report (biopsy) revealed could be cancerous.

He needs a minimum of GH¢10,000 for the medical procedure, but he cannot afford the bill due to financial constraints.

Ghanaian assistant physician needs urgent surgery
Photos of Sylvester Dery. Credit: Braimah George
Source: Facebook

Dery most recently got inducted as a physician assistant by the Ghana Medical and Dental Council (MDC), according to a post by Facebook user Braimah George.

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However, he's been compelled to put his dreams on hold, as he struggles for his life.

Please donate via MoMo to 0544887651 (Babongbabal Sylvester Dery).

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Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported that a physically challenged Ghanaian man, Paul Oppong, who has crawled all his life, needs urgent help to secure a wheelchair to aid his mobility.

Oppong, 23, lives with his mother in a disadvantaged condition at Gomoa Mankessim in the Central Region of Ghana.

Besides the wheelchair, the physically challenged young man also needs financial assistance to start a small business to make him a bit self-reliant.

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Also, YEN.com.gh previously reported that a visually impaired mother of twins named Maame Serwaa is now the owner of a new self-contained house with moderate facilities to ease her plight.

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Serwaa, 18, was taken advantage of by the father of the newly born babies. Her parents are also not with her.

The teenager lives with her grandmother in a deprived state in a village in the Ashanti Region, where they rely on the kindness of loved ones to feed themselves and the babies.

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Nathaniel Crabbe (Human-Interest editor) Nathaniel Crabbe is a journalist and editor with a degree in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where he graduated in 2015. He earned his master's from UPSA in December 2023. Before becoming an editor/writer of political/entertainment and human interest stories at Asaase Radio, Crabbe was a news reporter at TV3 Ghana. With experience spanning over ten years, he now works at YEN.com.gh as a human interest editor. You can reach him via nathaniel.crabbe@yen.com.gh.