7-Year-Old Ghanaian Boy Ivan Selase Hatse With Leg Malformation Needs GH¢200,000 For Urgent Corrective Surgery

• A seven-year-old boy with a physical handicap requires $17,418.20 (GH¢198,535.95) for urgent orthopaedic surgery
• The native of Ghana's Volta Region's Ho West District has a leg deformity that has forced him to postpone his education
• The child's family and the Mama Lynn Charity Foundation have appealed for financial assistance to help with the child's surgery

Ivan Selase Hatse, a seven-year-old person living with a physical disability (PLWD), needs $17,418.20 (GH¢198,535.95) to undergo urgent corrective orthopaedic surgery.

The resident of Ho West District in Ghana's Volta Region has a leg malformation that requires a medical procedure to ease the countless mobility struggles.

About the boy's mum and father

According to 3news, the youngster's leg deformity limits his movement and hinders him from accessing education, social participation, and other opportunities that children of his age commonly enjoy.

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The mountain of challenges has prevented the child from going to school as expected of any normal child.

Hatse's family requires assistance to finance his orthopaedic surgery. The child's mum recently passed, and his father is on admission at a hospital, where he's battling a mild stroke.

See an image of Ivan Selase Hatse below:

Per Cleveland Clinic, Orthopaedic surgery can correct deformities in the skeleton and its associated structures.

An appeal for help

Hatse needs $17,418.20 (198,535.95) for medical treatment, including other expenses that would lead to a more normal life.

Mama Lynn Charity Foundation, a Human Rights Reporters Ghana-NGO, and Ivan's family, including the local well-wishers, have appealed for support to facilitate his surgery.

They are reaching out to individuals and organisations alike for donations and assistance.

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Ghanaian mum of 5 sets of twins appeals for help

Previously, YEN.com.gh reported that a Ghanaian mum of five sets of twins, Beatrice Owusuwaa, appealed for financial assistance in a heartbreaking video to cater for her babies' needs.

The resident of Akwasiase in Ghana's Ashanti Region disclosed in an interview that the father of the babies had long travelled in search of employment but had since not returned.

Owusuwaa, who had previously told ALL Mediaghana that all five sets of twins had different fathers, subsequently said they all shared the same father. Some of the babies have died, she added.

Ghanaian granny of twins gets help

Also, YEN.com.gh recalls reporting that after appealing for help to cater to a set of twins whose mother died after giving birth, a grandmother received a fully-stocked provision shop and over GH¢30,000.

The twins' birth mother died two weeks after delivering the adorable babies in the Central Region of Ghana.

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Source: YEN.com.gh