A Nigerian dentist weighs in on the N30m GoFundMe created for the young TikToker, Jarvis who battles a mouth tumor which requires urgent medical attention.
This came hours after Jarvis and her boyfriend, Peller announced her GoFundMe, requesting support from her fans to help tackle her health issue.
Peller had pleaded with their fans to support them in their little way for the N30m required to perform the surgery on the TikToker.
Reacting to the donations, a dentist identified as @Dentalgiorgio on X argued that the amount requested for the surgery is outrageous, rather, it costs less than 1% of the required donation to get the surgery done at his centre.
“Not to be a spoiler, but this so called surgery costs about 200k in my centre, adding tests, biopsy, admission charges and feeding, it’s not up to 500k talk less of a million. This is a detty December fundraising. That’s all I can say,” he wrote while quoting the video.
Corroborating the claim, another user identified as @Phatill affirmed that it cost twice as much as the dentist stated to get the tumor surgery done at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH.
“Exactly #405,000 at LASUTH this time last year. Social media is a hard drug,” she added.
