Sad! Woman Who Fell Into Boiling Oil While Frying Meat

Punch Newspaper reports the tragic story of an epileptic woman who fell into boiling oil. It happened 7 years ago while she, Afusat Jimoh, was helping an aunt to fry some pieces of meat when she suddenly had epileptic convulsion and fell into the sizzling oil. . . While battling with the burns she sustained at the Burns Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, her 6-month-old child fell ill and died, followed by the death of her husband. Her mother also abandoned her and fled. She now resides at Ijeshatedo Street, Surulere, Lagos State. . . 

The Lagos State Government, which promised to foot the bills for a face-lift surgery, was said to have defaulted on its pledge. The only person she has around her now is her uncle and her old father who visits once in a while. She was selling ready-made clothes, but people were afraid of patronizing her because of her looks. . . Afusat now begs for alms in order to raise funds for her surgery. A document, purportedly issued by an Indian medical facility in Mumbai, Wockhardt Hospitals, dated July 2012, showed that the cost of the surgery was N3m, excluding her cost of travel.