A five-year old girl, Mercy Aka suffering from swollen stomach diagnosed as Ventral Hernia by doctors is seriously in need of a sum of N500,000 for surgery.

It was said that Mercy had been taken to several hospitals in the last five months.

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Doctors at the Nigeria Christian Hospital in Nlagu in Abia State said the N500,000 required would cover the cost of the surgery, treatment and drugs.

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Mercy’s parents, Mr and Mrs Utume Nor-Aka, both indigenes of Taraba State, however pleaded with kind hearted Nigerians to assist them with funds to save their daughter from untimely death