Its A Lie, Dentist Calls Out Peller and Jarvis Over N30m Gofundme For Surgery Is N200K In My Centre
A Nigerian dentist has skeptically voiced out over the N30 million GoFundMe campaign created for TikToker Jarvis, who is battling a mouth tumor requiring immediate medical attention, just hours after Jarvis and Peller, announced the GoFundMe, requesting support from fans to cover the N30 million surgery, the dentist, identified as @Dentalgiorgio on X, argued that the requested amount was to high.
@Dentalgiorgio said that the surgery, including order tests, biopsy, admission charges, and feeding, would cost less than 1% of the requested donation at his center, amounting to about N200k with a total cost not exceeding N500k He said the fundraising effort as a “detty December fundraising” ploy.
Supporting this claim, another user, @Phatill, mentioned that similar tumor surgery at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) cost approximately N405k the previous year, suggesting that the campaign’s financial target was overly hyped.
The controversy has sparked a broader discussion onthe internet about the transparency and ethics of crowdfunding for medical treatments, Click see Post: