Family seeks public assistance for woman to undergo brain surgery

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The once-normal life of 47-year-old Sharmila Rampersaud of Lot 9 South, Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD), has taken another turn after she was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm last December, damaging her vision and causing other serious health conditions.
Today, her family is pleading with the public for assistance for her to have much needed medical attention so as to bring about some normalcy. Doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Cooperation (GPHC) after conducting a computerised tomography (CT) scan and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) found that Rampersaud was suffering from an aneurysm in her brain, a condition which involves the bulging or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain.
In this case, surgical clipping or endovascular coiling is expected to be done to seal off the unruptured aneurysm and help prevent a future rupture.
However, if treatment is delayed, the blood vessel will continue to grow, causing severe localised headaches, blurred vision, neck pain and even a rupture which can lead to death.
In an interview on Monday, the woman’s daughter, Melisa Bacchus, shared that her mother was experiencing severe pain in the neck last December, which prompted a hospital visit during which doctors made the discovery and recommended immediate surgery.
“I took her to the hospital and they did a CT scan, it found that she had blood in her brain and she was placed on medication. Later on, her right eye shut down and after that, we did an MRI and it showed that she had an aneurysm growing in her brain, which she has to do a surgery for,” the daughter explained.
However, the cost of this much-needed operation is estimated to be G$6.4 million – an amount the family is fighting to secure, but to date, little progress has been made.
Bacchus shared that her mother is presently in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago, with hopes that the surgery can be done there at a much lower cost. For this cause, family members are asking the public to help fund the operation needed to save Rampersaud’s life.
Interested persons can contact Bacchus on cellphone number 681-2577 or telephone number 5012376.

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