The Caretaker Management Committee of Ife East Local Government Council Area of the State of Osun has taken up the medical treatment expenses of a 10 year-old Orphan and Basic 4 pupil of the L.A Elementary School Ijio, Ile-Ife, Adeleke Tomiwa who has been diagnosed with Left Spastic Hemiplegia.
Hemiplegia is a kind of Cerebral Palsy with intellectual impairment and flexion deformity of the left hand and ankle.
A statement by the Information Officer of the council, Olawoye Olufemi said the discovery of the boy was made during the distribution of school uniforms to the public schools in Ife East Local Government when the Executive Secretary, Adeyeni Olubusola and his management team were informed that Tomiwa had lost his mother at birth and the father died five years after.
The sad event, according to the statement left Tomiwa at the mercy of a family member, Mrs Yemisi Adesope who has been taking the sole responsibility of caring for the boy alongside her own children in spite of her lean source of income.
The statement hinted that Tomiwa’s class teacher, Mrs Adewoyin Sadiat who relayed the story to the council’s management team said, the boy’s kind-heartedness and appreciative nature on every assistance rendered to him by any teacher have encouraged almost all the teachers in the school to want to assist him whenever the need arises.
On hearing the sad story of the orphan, the statement added that the council boss subsequently swung into action by presenting Tomiwa’s case before the management team where it was agreed upon that an urgent step should be taken to save the teen’s deteriorating health condition.
Tomiwa’s teacher who noted that his treatment has since commenced at the Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife on the bill of the council, noted that there has been tremendous improvement on his health condition, saying, for proper treatment, Tomiwa would be attending three clinics, Physiotherapy, Neuron and Operational therapy.
