Help, my dad needs N25m for ICU treatment, daughter cries out

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Sunday magazine

August 31, 2025 by

ICU treatment

Josephine Adams an Alabama, USA-based Nigerian Business analyst has cried out for public help to enable her father continue his treatment in ICU, and hopefully get back to full health.

According to Adams, the family has virtually exhausted their savings, having spent millions trying to get her beloved father back to full health, but at the moment, it seems its time they cried out for help.

“My dad Mr. Tobias Bright has been battling Prostate cancer which eventually affected his kidney last September. Due to our inability to raise fund for a required surgery, he had to be using an indwelling urinary catheter over a long period of time that made it affect the kidney.

As a chronic kidney disease (CKD) patient, he has been on dialysis since September last year. We spent N22,288,000 million to stabilise him at Reddington Hospital, Victoria Island when last year’s crisis began. This is aside the constant dialysis and after-care treatments from September 2024 till date. By January 2025, my dad was very okay and was only on dialysis, but we were waiting to raise funds for his TURP so the catheter can be taken off.

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While trying to raise funds for his TURP, he developed another complication after his dialysis on August 2nd 2025. He was unresponsive and unconscious. We moved him to Reddington to stabilise him. We spent N14,650,000 million in Reddington. However, when we saw the humongous bill, we opted to move him to a Renal Specialist Facility with dialysis services because Reddington’s dialysis services were down. St. Nicolas 50-bed ICU was filled up, so we got referred by Professor Ekweme, his Urologist, to Diamed Centre in Lekki Phase 1 on the 16th of August 2025. From then till date, we’ve spent N18,500,000 with ICU bills still piling.

When we got there with his Glasgow Coma Scale was 3, he was treated till it came up to 9, just enough for him to have his TURP. The ventilation has been taken off as at 22nd August 2025 but he’s still in the ICU with a tube passed through his nostril for feeding and oral medications.

We need an additional N25,000,000 (Twenty-Five Million Naira) to ensure my dad gets stabilised and goes back home. We humbly appeal to every well-meaning person for financial assistance, so my dad can be stabilised. There has been visible improvement and by all indications, he will be fine, that is why we decided to go all out to seek for assistance.

We have a GoFundMe and local account where donations can be made. God bless you all.

Local Account Details: First Bank Bright Iheanyichukwu Tobias 3014606240

GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/1f308950