Help Rachel get her life back

Rachel Okem Otchere is a 29 year old pharmacist, wife, and mother whose story touches the heart of everyone who hears it. If you haven’t met Rachel before, she is a charismatic, fun-loving young woman who has dedicated her life to her family, profession, and faith. Her warm personality shines through her Youtube channel and vlogs (https://youtube.com/@MTL19) and she’s always singing or humming. However, everything changed when she received a wrongful administration of Atracurium, a powerful anaesthetic, leaving her paralysed and in need of finances for urgent rehabilitative care.

Rachel safely delivered her 2nd child via caesarean on 26th January 2023 and had a 72-hour window to receive an Anti D vaccine. Unfortunately, Atracurium was administered instead via intramuscular injection, causing her body to shut down and her heart to stop beating, depriving her of oxygen for hours.

Since then, Rachel spent weeks on a ventilator in the ICU, with a tracheostomy, battled severe infections and fought to stay alive. Upon discharge from the hospital on 5th May 2023, she has been scheduled for urgent rehabilitative care to help her regain brain function and motility.

She has been diagnosed with Hypoxic Ishcaemic brain injury post cardiac arrest sec to medication error (atracurium), acute pulmonary thromboembolism; ECHO suggestive of PE, aspiration Pneumonia and Infected gluteal ulcer.

Presently, Rachel is in a wheelchair, depends on a feeding tube and is facing an incredibly grueling journey of neurological tests, surgeries, and rehabilitative care. Amidst all this, her family and loved ones have stood by her side, caring for her two children and supporting her while she continues to fight to survive.

Unfortunately, the cost of her treatment is preventing Rachel from getting the urgent care she needs to recover. There’s an outstanding bill of GHS 248,176.88 (approx. USD 22,172.92), and Rachel needs about GBP 60,000 (approx. USD 74,702.94) for an extensive 3-month rehabilitation treatment in the UK.

Any donation big or small would make a massive difference to us, as her family's resources have been completely exhausted, having already paid about GHS 200,000 (approx. USD 17,873.10) in bills and medications. Also, due to Rachel’s condition, her family has put their careers on hold to care for her and her children around the clock and will need money for the recovery journey ahead.

This is an appeal for financial support to get Rachel back again, to be able to hold her newborn and run after her toddler. Let us show Rachel and her family the power of humanity and community.

Throughout this journey, we ask for continuing prayers and words of support for Rachel and her family. Please help by donating and sharing to spread the word.

God bless you.

Note:

The 2012 year group of Aburi Girls' Association (AOGA Twelve) is an association of old students from Aburi Girls Senior High School who graduated in 2012, of which Rachel Okem Otchere is a member. AOGA Twelve through its President, Maud Avevor (listed as a beneficiary), has created this GoFundMe to raise funds in support of Rachel.