Dr. Chinonso Egemba, "Aproko Doctor"
Popular Nigerian influencer, Dr. Chinonso Egemba better known as “Aproko Doctor“, has opened up about his battle with a brain tumour.
He disclosed this in a video he shared on his Twitter handle on Monday.
Aproko doctor captioned the video, “Throughout December of 2022, I was fighting for my life. I went blind in one eye on the 3rd of December 2022 and the 5th, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour.”
Speaking in the video, he said, “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.”
He also disclosed that it was a neurosurgeon in Nigeria, Dr. Tayo Ojo that did the surgery.
According to him, several persons begged him to leave the country and get the surgery done but he still had trust in Nigeria and called for more investment in the country’s health sector.
“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.”
In other news, Kanyi Daily reported that a Nigerian lady on Twitter simply named, Kaylove has recounted how her biological parents physically abused her in a terrible manner.
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