£825k To Save My Boy

Lad of 9 diagnosed with leukaemia in UK denied free NHS care

- Amy Sharpe

A BOY diagnosed with leukaemia on a medical trip to the UK is being denied life-saving care unless his family pays £825,000 up front.

Nathaniel Nabena, nine, could die “within days” without treatment, his family say.

The lad had his left eye removed in home country Nigeria because of cancer.

He came here to have a £5,000 prosthetic replacement fitted privately in November. But before treatment began he started suffering nosebleeds and a fever and was diagnosed with rare acute myeloid leukaemia at South London’s Croydon University Hospital.

Nathaniel now needs a stem cell transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital but his family must pay £825,000 before treatment can begin.