JUMMAI NACHE: A COVID-19/PFIZER VACCINE DOUBLE AMPUTEE NEEDS HELP.

ICHEOKU says is an advocate of vaccination and continues to urge people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease. The vaccines are largely safe and millions of people have already got their shots without much side effects and in the very few exceptional cases where side effects resulted, they are comparatively, small. However, this is not to discountenance that some few people had serious adverse reaction to the vaccines, and now suffering from all manners of health issues including uncontrollable body quaking, trembling and convulsion, hearing loss, impacted vision and in some extreme cases, the loss of limbs. In some rare cases, some people died following vaccination as their body reacted so violently to the vaccine and could not handle it. 

Although the instances of this extreme adverse effects is relatively negligible compared to the millions of people who did not react to the vaccine adversely, but one death or one adverse reaction, is still one too many as nobody expected to die or lose their limbs following a vaccination. It should not be a case of running away from the frying pan and ended up inside the fire as people want to be inoculated against the Chinese killer virus and not be killed in the process. Such an outcome was not the bargained for benefit that motivated their presenting themselves to be vaccinated. Therefore the government in conjunction with the pharmaceutical companies involved should set up a fund from which compensation could be paid to those people who got the opposite of their bargain and were left holding the short-end of the stick; or worse still ended up in the grave yard, sent there not by the coronavirus but by the vaccine which was meant to prevent such an outcome.

The government and vaccine producers can easily undertake this as the insured and insurable risk will be drastically limited to only those who suffered loss of limbs and/or death as a result of taking the coronavirus vaccines. Such beneficiaries should be strictly limited to only those who did not have coronavirus disease prior to getting their vaccination and subsequently developed such a life threatening or compounding problems such as amputations of their legs and/or arms. The number of such sufferers will not be too many and such a step will also help incentivize and encourage those who are still squeamish about getting their shots, to take that leap of fate, fully aware that should anything happen to them as a result, such as incapacitation or even death, that their loved ones will be compensated.

Life as we know it is hard and it becomes even harder when loved ones, due to no fault of theirs, suddenly become incapacitated or even die; leaving behind a lot of hurt and un-fillable void. Worse still if they are the breadwinners of their household and their family is left foraging for sustenance and survival. Many people, if given the option to die from the coronavirus or die from the vaccine, would readily go for the former; a  matter made even worse when their demise is preceded with long suffering hospitalization, intubation, amputations of all their limbs and all other things done in trying to prevent the inevitable, which they eventually ended up succumbing to. Why would anyone want to go through all the problems first before getting there, instead of just getting it over quickly by getting there as speedily as possible. It does not make sense, not at all.

The case of the Minnesota woman Jummai Nache is so heartrending that nobody would wish it on their worst enemy. A loving wife, mother, medical worker and a Christian who went for her second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on February 1st only to be rushed to Urgent Care on February 6th following complaints of chest pain. A day later on February 7th, she tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus disease and her condition took a turn for the worse as it deteriorated so quickly, leading to intensive care hospitalization and oxygenated intubation,. Her two legs were subsequently amputated as a result of irreversible damage to circulation to her lower extremities. She suffered massive blood clotting, respiratory difficulties, weakness of heart muscles, reduced red blood cells and inadequate blood supply to her body organs and organs  inflammation. 

Although she is out of the intensive care but her medical woes are not over yet as she will soon also lose both of her hands which are set for amputations as well. Imagine a life of a quadruple amputee, all possibly because of COVID-19 and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. However, since she did not react adversely to the first shot of the vaccine and did not have coronavirus then or during the two weeks waiting period soon thereafter, it becomes arguable whether it is still plausible to attribute her adverse condition to the vaccine? But since she still got infected after completing her vaccination with the second shot and then reacted this badly, what possibly could have caused it? ICHEOKU says it must be a case of someone being extremely unlucky because were it due to the vaccine, she would have been struck immediately upon getting her first shot. It therefore must be as a result of complications from COVID-19, but why was she still infected after getting her two shots?

Anyway, she is one very unfortunate lady as she did everything right by getting her shots, yet ended up getting COVID-19 and suffering such devastating health complications. It is people like her that makes the need to set up a compensation fund imperative in order to assist people who due to no fault of theirs ended up with such debilitating health issues. The government in Washington DC as well as in Minnesota and also the city of Minneapolis should give this woman all the assistance which she needs paying her medical expenses as well as life going forward. Her case is where her representative Congresswoman Ilhan Omar should be in the forefront  soliciting for help on her behalf. Their church Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention have already taken a good step by setting up a GoFundMe page for her and hopefully many people will be touched by her story to surpass the set goal of raising $500,000 towards her medical bills and upkeep. Please visit her GoFundMe page today and help as much as you can - #GoFundMe for Jummai Nache.