With RM45,725 raised brain tumour boy can undergo operation
MIRI: A fund-raising campaign organised by SUPP Piasau has raised RM45,725 from concerned members of the public here for Sheimark Lai Asnah, 9, to undergo an operation to remove a brain tumour at Sarawak General Hospital in Kuching next month.
Assistant Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Datuk Sebastian Ting said the campaign was a success.
“We wish to thank members of the public for donating to a good cause. We have reached our target and the amount raised is more than enough for the operation and other expenses,” Ting told a press conference here yesterday.
He added that an individual who declined to be named donated RM20,000.
He said the boy would be transferred from Borneo Medical
Centre Miri to Sarawak General Hospital on Friday (Jan 24), accompanied by his father.
Neurosurgeon Dr Adrian Ng is overseeing Sheimark’s condition.
He underwent a surgical procedure on Jan 16 to remove ventricular fluid in the head.
An MRI brain scan conducted on Jan 18 revealed that the tumor was 6cm x 5cm in size.
Sheimark’s parents Henrick Lai Yee How, 30, and Asnah Gani, 28, met Ting at his office yesterday.
Henrick, a grass cutter and Asnah, a housewife who live in Tudan have three children.
Asnah said Sheimark their second child was referred to Miri Hospital on Dec 16 last year after complaining of headache, vomiting and nausea
He was there for four days during which time he had undergone a computerized tomography (CT) scan.