Ace music producer, Babatunde Okungbowa, aka OJB Jezreel, has revealed that he spends close to N350,000 every month on drugs and treatment in the hospital two years after he had a successful kidney transplant in India.
OJB Jezreel
Speaking with The Punch newspaper, OJB said: “Right from the day I had the transplant, I have been spending close to N350,000 every month on my drugs, treatment in the hospital, dieting and every other thing.”
He also denied claims that he had suffered a kidney relapse.
“Normally there are challenges that come with the post-transplant or recovery period. Some of them have to do with issues related to hygiene. Also, the drugs I use – which are meant to fortify the immune system so that my body can accept the kidney – make me vulnerable to all kinds of infection and diseases.
“So from time to time, I always go for medical checks. Sometimes I may undergo treatment at the hospital for a longer time than usual. During one of such periods, some people must have concluded that I had entered another relapse and they felt it was time for me to undergo another transplant. I think that was what led to the rumour. Let me use this occasion to assure them that I am not in that stage at all. What I am facing right now are the normal challenges that come with the transplant.”
The producer also revealed that doctors had prescribed a special diet for him, but said it is a little too difficult to maintain.
“The problem with the dieting, I must confess, is that it is not an easy thing to maintain. If one should go by their (doctors) standard, everything I eat should be fresh. If you look at it critically, it also means, for example, that when I want to eat meat, it should be fresh meat. Let’s be very frank, I am sure that even Dangote himself cannot pull this off. Not in Nigeria at present,” he said.
People Awards 2015 He further revealed that the only complication he has is from some of the prescribed drugs he has been using.
“Some of the drugs are steroids and they are full of sugar. Now I have to undergo treatment for diabetes at the same time as I am treating other ailments. But the major problem is not really the physical pain I suffer; it is the emotional trauma that results from the illness,” he said.
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