Ethan Suglo
Ethan Suglo is a three year old Ghanaian boy, who is suffering from health issue known as 'Exomphalos' which mean his organs are outside his abdomen.
Ethan will be flown abroad for operation after a UK Dr David Williams and wife Jacquie helped in raising £51,000 to help carry out the needed surgery, which the doctor classified as 'life-saving surgery'.
Ethan Suglo
Last summer, doctor David Williams was in Ghana visiting his daughter who was teaching English and working on a radio show when he met Ethan's father Charles, who also worked at the radio station.
Dr Williams and family
When he was on holiday, He had the chance of examining Ethan and he was shocked when he first saw the little boy, expressing his shock, Dr Williams said he has never seen a thing like that before and that he was expecting to see a grown up kid with swollen tummy or malnutrition and worms.
The surgery is said to be carried out on Wednesday in the UK, Dr Williams classify the surgery as "life-saving and life-transforming".
Reflecting back on July 2015, Dr Williams first met Ethan, said: "I was asked when I went out, because I'm a doctor, just to have a look at Ethan.
"So I went thinking I'd see a little African boy with a swollen tummy... malnutrition and worms, and when I got there I was just shocked by what I saw.
"I'd never seen it before, certainly not in a two-year-old. I don't think I'd ever seen it in my career, I've been a doctor 20 or 30 years and I'd never seen this case.
"I wasn't sure at that time what would be involved, but I did look Charles in the eye and said I'd do what I could to help."
Ethan and father
He said he thought he would contact Ghanaian or Nigerian surgeons and the surgery could be carried out locally, but it quickly became apparent that Ghana did not have the facilities or expertise.
Dr Williams, from Stretton-on-Fosse on the Warwickshire-Gloucestershire border, contacted professors and surgeons in England and a paediatric surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital said he could do the operation.
£25,000 was estimated for the surgery , so in March a fundraising campaign was launched to cover the cost of the operation, including flights and additional costs.
Dr Williams said that he has been told the total currently sits at around £51,000 thanks to events such as cake sales and half marathons, as well as help from charity Willing and Abel.
The extra money will help other children, he said.
Ethan and father, Charles
Talking about how Ethan's condition affects him, Dr Williams said that Charles has told of how people in their home country refer to them as "the family with the boy who's pregnant".
He added: "They don't let the little boy go out of the house because everybody pokes his tummy and prods at him and makes comments.
"So when he's at home he will be able to go to school and have a normal life, play football and be a normal boy again.
"He's incredible really. He's a very happy child, a very happy disposition. Nothing seems to have fazed him really. He's met lots of people and he's very brave.
"But also he just gets on with it. He's just an adorable three-year-old."
Ethan's father Charles said the kindness of Dr and Mrs Williams is "bringing a lot of joy and excitement" to his family.
"It's a miracle," he said.
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