A 17 year-old female student, Chisom Chukwuneke from Graceland College in Enugu who emerged the best in the 2019 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, WASSCE at her school, has died of leukaemia; a blood cancer disease.
Felix Chukwuneke, a Nigerian professor identified as the father of the deceased, took to Facebook to narrate how Chisom’s sickness started as leg pain.
He said this had prompted him to fly her to South Africa for medical care.
He wrote:
“It was just like a dream but the realities are crystal now. Just a pain on the leg that snowballed to a devastating episode, the battle started earnestly. I hear you call, ‘daddy my leg is paining me’. I watch as you lie abed with pain,” he said in a long tribute to the deceased.
“As restless and worried as I can be, I promised to do everything humanly possible. With glaring poor health care in Nigeria, off we went to South Africa. We were happy at your initial recovery not knowing the war was just to begin.
“We fought it together for more than a year in SA. You were an embodiment of intelligence of inestimable value. Above all, an indefatigable personality, courageous in the face of glaring uncertainty. You were strong, philosophical.
