By Naneka Hoffman
A single mother has launched an SOS appeal for financial assistance to save her daughter from losing one of her feet after her involvement in an accident.
According to her, doctors at JFK Hospital in Monrovia are requesting over US$700 for medical bills, or else, they will be constrained to take her daughter off the bed and put her on the bare floor, adding she has up to two weeks to pay the money.
Speaking in tears during an exclusive interview with The NEW DAWN on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, Mother Lisa Ballah said her daughter is breadwinner for the home, and assistance being provided by the driver of the container truck involved in the accident cannot underwrite the medical bill.
She appealed to government, philanthropists and Montserrado County District #17 Representative Abu Kamara, for assistance to get her daughter treated.
Mother Ballah narrated that on April 22, 2023, at 2: 00 pm her 24-year-old daughter Catherine Ballah, was involved in an accident when a commercial motorbike she had boarded while returning from buying second-handed clothes to sell hooked on a container truck near Duala Market on Bushrod Island, smashing her foot.
She said the bike rider attempted overtaking the container truck when it hooked on the truck and she fell instantly with her foot going under the truck.
She continued that her daughter lost consciousness and was taken to the JFK Hospital in Sinkor, Monrovia, noting that if not for God’s intervention and doctors at JFK, her daughter could have died.
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She added that when her daughter was taken to the hospital, she didn’t have a dime for doctors to start administering medication, but they treated her before requesting for money.
According to her, she took the case to the Zone One Depot#2 Police Station in St. Paul Bridge community, Bushrod Island and after investigation, the Police held the bike rider liable and exonerated the container truck.
Madam Ballah said the case was then forwarded to the Traffic Court at the Temple of Justice and one of the judges there told her they will release the container driver so that he could help with financial assistance, as the bike rider could not afford to pay, adding that they free the driver with the understanding that he will provide 6,000 Liberian Dollars every Friday to help with her daughter’s medication.
Lisa said the driver carried 6,000 Liberian Dollars one time to the court and the next time she went there, the driver was nowhere to be found. However, she revealed that after three days, he came with 5,000 Liberian Dollars for three weeks, which cannot cover the medical bill, leaving her with no option but to launch a public appeal for her daughter’s health condition. Editing by Jonathan Browne
