I spend N1,000 from my house on the Island to the Foundation every time I visit. Towobola continues, “My challenge is with going for the dressing. Ever since, I have been a regular visitor there because I was surprised it was absolutely free.” A matron urged me to visit the foundation and, on that day, when my wound was cleaned and dressed there, I got home and slept like a newborn and I also ate well. People started running away from me due to my frail stature. I could neither sleep nor eat for a month. It becomes difficult to sleep and there is nothing like concentration in class due to the overwhelming pain,” Samuel laments.Īnother patient, Towobola Adigun, whose leg ulcer started in 2019 has a wide leg ulcer due to poor management at inception. When the wound is not dressed when it should, the pain is excruciating and there is no amount of pain relief that will make it go away. Most hospitals don’t know how to handle or manage leg ulcer effectively because they treat it like normal wound, only the foundation does it well. I miss classes for two weeks before returning to school. But my challenge is, anytime I visit the foundation to manage my leg ulcer, I am unable to attend lectures. “Dressing the wound constantly as well as taking medications makes the ulcer heal. The young man seems worried as he was informed that the older one gets, the longer it takes for the ulcer to heal. But, after some time, it reoccurred and he has been managing the fresh ulcer since then. Some months after he commenced treatment there, it healed.
He was later referred by someone to the foundation and he has been a regular visitor since 2020. It started as an itch and he was told it was a leg ulcer but due to poor management, it expanded. Samuel Yusuf, a 23-year-old 300-level student at the Lagos State University (LASU) had a leg ulcer in 2015.
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