Aproko Doctor

Craniopharyngioma na one kain brain tumour, e dey rare but no be cancer.

As di Craniopharyngioma tumour dey grow, na so e go dey affect di functions of di pituitary gland. Craniopharyngioma dey grow slowly and di growth dey usually begin near di pituitary gland inside di brain. Inside video wey di influencer post for im Instagram page, im share im story about how im fight for im life.

Dr Chinonso Fidelis Egemba, best known as Aproko Doctor, who has brought us laughs and medical advice for years, was recently diagnosed with a brain ...

I’m dedicating my life to seeing that they succeed in our country, Nigeria. So many people begged me to leave the country and get the surgery done, but something kept me back here because I still had trust in us. I went blind in one eye on the 3rd of December 2022, and on the 5th, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

"It was Dr Tayo Ojo, a neurosurgeon here in Nigeria, that did the surgery. So many people begged me to leave the country and get the surgery done."

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Nigerian physician, Dr. Chinonso Egemba aka Aproko Doctor, shares how he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and saved by a neurosurgeon.

I started laughing, I was laughing because I could remember the exact time in class or as medical students we were taught Cranio Pharyngitis and how it can affect your vision. “It happened that on the 5th of December, 2022, I was diagnosed with Cranio Pharyngitis also known as a brain tumour. It was so bad that I couldn’t read from the phone anymore.

Nonso Egemba, the Nigerian medical expert better known as Aproko Doctor, has revealed that he was diagnosed with a brain tumour in December 2.

“Then because of the position of the tumour and the height and how risky it was at that point, they said they need to go through the skull. To the point where this (left eye) I couldn’t see with it and it was also closing. So many people begged me to leave the country and get the surgery done but something kept me back here because I still had trust in us. “There were people who asked me why I did the surgery in Nigeria. It was sitting on the optic gland around this eye and was also affecting this (right eye). They had to open the skull, take out the piece of the skull completely, go through the brain so that they can know what they want to do. And I said amen and went to the bed. I called my ophthalmologist (a medical doctor who specialises in eye and vision care) that I can’t see. “Throughout December of 2022, I was fighting for my life. I told my wife, I think there’s something wrong with this eye and the first thing she said was God forbid. 2022 & on the 5th, I was diagnosed with a brain tumour. I went blind in one eye on the 3rd of Dec.

Medical tourism, which refers to people traveling abroad to receive medical treatment is having adverse effects on Nigeria's healthcare system.

So many people begged me to leave the country and get the surgery done but something kept me back here because I still had trust in us. Tayo Ojo, a neurosurgeon here in Nigeria that did the surgery. [brain drain](https://www.developmentdiaries.com/2022/11/rising-medical-brain-drain-in-nigeria/) in the sector which has escalated to an alarming proportion. The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) recently condemned medical tourism, especially among the political class in Nigeria. This message coming from a medical doctor in Nigeria indicates that if the government decides to invest in proper funding for healthcare and revamp the sector, there are competent medical professionals in Nigeria who can carry out the complex surgeries that the wealthy and ‘political elite’ travel out of the country to do. ‘But I think we have good hands here.