Aproko Doctor Discloses Battle With Brain Tumour, Urges Nigerians To Seek Local Medical Attention

 

Nigerian medical practitioner and content creator, Dr. Chinonso Egemba who is better known as Aproko Doctor, has opened up about his health battle with a brain tumour.

The social media influencer shared this via his social media page today, January 16, 2022, stating that he battled for his life throughout December last year.

According to Egemba, he was diagnosed on December 5 and went partially blind not long after.

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Egemba shared a video, detailing the experience and the surgery he had to undergo.

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He said,

Throughout December of 2022, I was fighting for my life. I went blind in one eye on the 3rd of December 2022, and on the 5th, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Today I stand here before you to share my story. It has been a long road to recovery, but each day is better than the last. The full story of how this brain tumour affected me and my family is up on my YouTube.

Egemba further revealed the condition and how it affected him, which resulted in needing a medical operation to redress it.

One thing to understand is that health issues can happen to you regardless of who you are, including me.

For the past three weeks or two weeks, I have been fighting for my life. Some of you have no idea. It happened that I was diagnosed with Craniopharyngioma which is a brain tumour and I had no idea I would be sharing my story.

Here I am sitting on this seat sharing my own story about how I had a tumour in my brain. It was so bad that I couldn’t read out of my phone anymore to the point where this eye, I couldn’t read with it and it was also closing. They said it is a Craniopharyngioma and we need to do surgery to remove it.

 

Identity Of The Neurosurgeon 

He further discouraged medical tourism while revealing the identity of the neurosurgeon who operated on and nursed him back to good health.

According to Aproko Doctor, Dr Tayo Ojo, a consultant neurosurgeon of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has been at the forefront of similar procedures.

It was Dr Tayo Ojo, a neurosurgeon here in Nigeria, that did the surgery.

So many people begged me to leave the country and get the surgery done, but something kept me back here because I still had trust in us.

We just need more investment in our health sector.

Education, health.

For me, those are the two systems any nation needs to succeed. I’m dedicating my life to seeing that they succeed in our country, Nigeria. I hope you see it too.

Throughout December of 2022, I was fighting for my life. I went blind in one eye on the 3rd of Dec. 2022 & on the 5th, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Today I stand here before you to share my story. It has been a long road to recovery but each day is better than the last. pic.twitter.com/PECblk7Q73

— Dr. Chinonso Egemba (@aproko_doctor) January 16, 2023

 

Testimony

CEO of Hotels.ng, one of the first online hotel booking websites in Nigeria, Mark Essien, in April 2021, also revealed how Dr Ojo, successfully operated on his father.

He said;

After two emergency ruptured aneurysms, brain surgery in Lagos and a massive scar across his head, my Dad is back to his same jolly self.

The doctors say his survival was miraculous, the neurologist says that it’s rare for someone to recover full brain function so quick.

All check-ups giving clean bill of health. Six months of brain function recovery and he’s now back to normal.

Here is the Doctor who did the brain surgery – Dr. Omotayo Ojo (Consultant Neurosurgeon at Lagoos Hospital). https://t.co/VAax8DBKwv https://t.co/TiHhuFZ466 pic.twitter.com/ETYwSuVZQM

— me (@markessien) April 4, 2021

Ojo, a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Lagoon Hospital, in 2013 won the prestigious Young Neurosurgeon award of the World Federation of Neurosurgeon Societies in South Korea.

He also won the award due to his outstanding work on Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy (ETV) in the treatment of hydrocephalus in children.