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OJB Jezreel Critically Ill Again

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Award winning Nigerian music producer and artiste, Babatunde Okungbowa popularly known as OJB Jezreel, who had a lifesaving kidney transplant last year, is in fresh health trouble as his kidney has collapsed again.

We exclusively learnt that the producer’s health is in a critical condition. After battling with post-surgery recuperation in the last eight months, we were informed by a close family member that OJB was rushed to one of the prominent general hospitals in Lagos for treatment two weeks ago. On arrival at the hospital, doctors diagnosed acute renal failure and he was swiftly admitted.

Thereupon, they administered emergency treatment on him and expressed dismay at his poor health. We gathered that they insisted that he must undergo at least five dialysis of his failed kidney before they could ascertain the next line of action.

A source close to his family disclosed that the medical experts who attended to OJB at the Lagos hospital were shocked at the sudden relapse despite last year’s successful kidney transplant. They chided him for not going back to India for post-surgery check-ups as specified by the team of Indian doctors in the medical report given to him.

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The source said the award winning music producer opened up to the doctors on his poor financial state, saying that this had prevented him from making at least two check-up visits to India since his kidney transplant.

It was learnt that his financial state had become so bad that his family had been struggling to buy vital prescribed drugs. It was so bad that, the prescribed five dialysis of OJB’s failed kidney at the Lagos hospital had to be delayed for several days while his family members led by his first wife, Mrs. Mabel Okungbowa, ran from pillar to post to raise the needed funds for the dialysis.

While the delay was on, our source revealed that OJB’s illness entered the urea level, which forced him to be saying things that were not comprehensible. A medical source described this as a symptom associated with failure to dilate a collapsed kidney on time.

This continued for days until the needed funds were raised and his condition became stable after two sessions of dialysis. OJB is left with three more dialysis session before the doctors in Lagos can ascertain the next step to take on saving his life.

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We also learnt that he is down with acute diabetes caused by one of the drugs he has been placed on for over one year. This has spread in his blood stream much that doctors had to resort to giving him regular injections to checkmate the insulin-induced diabetes.

One week after OJB was taken to the hospital, his other two wives, Amar and Korede, are said to have stayed away from the hospital for reasons best known to them.

This has left only the first wife running around to save their husband’s life.

Last year, it was Mabel who donated one of her kidneys to her husband when the other wives refused to do so.

Our source noted that “OJB’s condition is so bad that the doctors who are attending to him have fears over his survival.

On his own, he had given strict instructions that nobody should go cap in hand publicly to source funds for his treatment as it was done last year when Nigerians came together to raise funds for his treatment in India.”

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Last year, OJB had put the total cost of his kidney treatment at N15 million. But he realised close to N50m as Governors Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State donated N30m.

It was learnt that the producer may have spent some of the funds on the acquisition of some personal items and the construction of a four-bedroom bungalow inside his compound in Surulere, Lagos.

The source disclosed that for OJB to stand on his feet again, there is the urgent need for Nigerians to come to his aid again, despite his refusal to make a fresh public plea for help.

None of his wives or family members could be reached for comments on the matter.

OJB is reputed as the strong hand behind artistes such as Tuface Idibia, Ruggedman, Jazzman Olofin, Nomoreloss among others.