Ethan's back home in Africa after life saving surgery

ETHAN Suglo has returned to Africa after life-saving surgery funded by the kind hearted efforts of people in Stretton-on-Fosse and south Warwickshire.

Ethan, aged three, from Ghana had his lifesaving surgery in Oxford to repair the hole in his abdominal wall and is now reunited with his family and friends.

He was born with an exomphalos, meaning when he was born his gastric organs were outside of his body.

Without the operation, Ethan would have been unlikely to live past the age of five.

Dr David Williams, a GP in Shipston, met Ethan and his family whilst visiting his daughter Laura, who spent a year volunteering in Ghana, teaching with Project Trust.

The family, including Laura’s mum and David’s wife Dr Jacquie Williams, from Stretton-on-Fosse, have been supported by charity Willing and Abel, which organises life-changing surgery for children from the developing world.

Thanks to a generous offer by Hugh Grant, a paediatric surgeon from Oxford, Ethan and his father Charles arrived in England in June and the life-saving operation followed soon after.

Ethan was welcomed back to Ghana with a special homecoming celebration organised by family and friends.