Veteran actor Bruno Iwuoha is a household name in the
Nigerian movie industry but of late the acor has been off the set. This has
been due to problems with his health as he battles with diabetes and glaucoma.
Last Tuesday, the actor who as a guest on the Brekete Family
Program on 104.5FM in Abuja opened up about his current health complications. He revealed that diabetes caught him unaware. He said he
never knew about his health condition until an attack by armed robbers landed
him in the hospital. There he was diagnosed of the ailment. The complication
with diabetes then gave birth to glaucoma.
Here's what he said:
“I’ve gone to so many places; within the country, outside the country for treatment, until finally…finally, the thing [diabetes] claimed one of my sight. As I look at you now, I’m using only one sight. They call that glaucoma. And gradually, it’s affecting the other one [eye]. So, na im make, apart from places…the people who call me atimes, both the little cash they can give me…drugs and all that…but I discovered that this thing [the illness] is a lifetime something.
"And it has robbed me of the job [acting]. And now, if I get a script, it will be hard for me to read it very well. And if I read it, if I strain my eyes for so long, it would look as if someone would lead me around the house or anywhere I want to go because it will affect the only one [eye]. So that’s my problem.”
Bruno Iwuoha needs a sum of N3.5 million to be treated in an
hospital in the United States of America. Currently, he has saved up to
N200,000. According to him, the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN
Ibinabo Fiberesima has turned deaf ears to his problems.
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