Bedridden Inneh Queens star Onwuegbuchulam needs N3.5m for surgery after fatal accident

Inneh Queens’ star player in Nigeria Women’s Football League (NWFL), Ifeoma Marvellous Onwuegbuchulam, has appealed for assistance to raise N3.5m for surgery, after a motor accident left her bedridden for several months.

Onwuegbuchulam, who played for Inneh Queens of Benin City and FCT Queens of Abuja before moving to Osun Queens of Osogbo, where the career-wrecking accident took place on the 5th of July this year, said the operation will enable her to walk again.

The product of Community Action Through Sports (CATS) youth development project, during their days of sponsorship by the British Council, disclosed that she suffered several fractures when a car ran into a commercial motorcycle she was on in the Olonkoro area of Osogbo.

Four months after the ghastly accident, Ifeoma is stuck in a wheelchair and needs N3.5m to undergo a final stage of corrective surgery at Asala Bone Centre in Osogbo.

Onwuegbuchulam recounted, “This accident was very, very serious, but I am happy that I am still alive. It happened when I was on a bike, and it got into a head-on collision with a car.

“The first hospital where I was rushed to and then admitted was LAUTECH in Ogbomosho. I was later transferred to Asala Specialist Bone Centre, a private hospital in Osogbo, where I had the first stage of surgery.

“I need another stage of surgery to get back fully on my feet, but I can’t afford it. That’s why I am using this medium to appeal to football lovers, players, officials, companies, and Nigerians in general to kindly assist me.”

Donations in support of the footballer can be sent to the following bank account: 0435157958 GTB, IFEOMA MARVELLOUS ONWUEGBUCHULAM