Helpless Breast Cancer Patient Dies Weeping And Begging For Help In The Hospital

Hours after the news paper carried her story, cancer patient Mrs Oluwabunmi Olabiyi died yesterday before help could reach her.She required N7million for a surgery to remove her right breast which got infected after the removal of her left breast.Thenews of her death reached our reporter about 4.10 pm through a call from a woman, who simply gave her name as Bukola, a sympathiser of the late Mrs Olabiyi.The late Mrs Olabiyi battled breast cancer for three years.The caller wept profusely for about two minute, before saying:
“That woman, Mrs Olabiyi, whose … whose story was published in your newspaper today (yesterday), has died; she gave up at 3.30 pm. She died weeping!”In our story, the late Mrs Olabiyi pleaded: “… Every second now, I pray to invite death to come quickly and take me away. God will take care of my children should I die. Death must come now, if help refuses to come my way.”The late Mrs Olabiyi, who is survived by three children a widower, hailed from Ibadan, Oyo State capital.Her poor widower could not help her thriving provision business collapsed while she was ill.Relations and sympathisers took her to various hospitals when her left breast became infected.When our reporter visited her in hospital in Bariga a Lagos suburb, she pleaded: “This pain is too much for me to bear any longer; please, help me beg death to come now!”
Her remains have been deposited at a mortuary in Lagos.May her soul rest in peace.