​For­mer ed­u­ca­tor and foot­ball ad­min­is­tra­tor Aza­ad Mo­hammed-Khan is in ur­gent need of pub­lic as­sis­tance as he con­tin­ues to bat­tle a se­ri­ous neu­ro­mus­cu­lar and res­pi­ra­to­ry con­di­tion that has left him hos­pi­talised for months and de­pen­dent on long-term med­ical care.

​Mo­hammed-Khan was re­cent­ly trans­ferred from the High De­pen­den­cy Unit (HDU) at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, to a reg­u­lar ward at the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal. This fol­lows two and a half months in the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU) and HDU af­ter he was rushed to emer­gency care, un­re­spon­sive. His daugh­ter, Jami­la Mo­hammed-Khan, con­firmed that al­though he has be­gun to sta­bilise, he re­quires ex­ten­sive re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion, dai­ly mon­i­tor­ing, and spe­cialised equip­ment be­fore he can safe­ly re­turn home.

​Doc­tors have in­formed the fam­i­ly that his re­cov­ery will need res­pi­ra­to­ry phys­io­ther­a­py, phys­i­cal ther­a­py, and con­tin­u­ous nurs­ing care due to lim­i­ta­tions with breath­ing and eat­ing, his two most crit­i­cal chal­lenges. He re­cent­ly re­gained lim­it­ed speech af­ter near­ly three months, com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the aid of a tra­cheosto­my de­vice, but re­mains on a ven­ti­la­tor.

To pre­pare for his dis­charge and en­sure prop­er home care, the fam­i­ly must se­cure sev­er­al es­sen­tial items, in­clud­ing a suc­tion ma­chine and catheters, an elec­tron­ic hos­pi­tal bed, a pres­sure-re­lief mat­tress, a com­mode, a walk­er, oxy­gen sup­plies, and con­sum­ables re­quired to main­tain the tra­cheosto­my. ​Fur­ther­more, a res­pi­ra­to­ry ther­a­pist, a phys­i­cal ther­a­pist, and full-time nurs­es are re­quired, day and night, as Mo­hammed-Khan can­not be left un­at­tend­ed.

Jami­la ini­tial­ly es­ti­mat­ed the cost of care at TT $200,000, but she now be­lieves the to­tal may ex­ceed that amount as ad­di­tion­al needs arise. She said the sit­u­a­tion has cre­at­ed sig­nif­i­cant emo­tion­al and fi­nan­cial strain, as she bal­ances be­ing his next of kin and pri­ma­ry de­ci­sion-mak­er with her full-time job. She con­tin­ues to re­ceive sup­port from her moth­er, Camille Agard-Quim­bie, as well as rel­a­tives and mem­bers of the sport­ing com­mu­ni­ty.

The fam­i­ly is hop­ing to raise ur­gent funds by De­cem­ber 5, 2025, to cov­er im­me­di­ate med­ical ex­pens­es and be­gin prepar­ing the nec­es­sary home en­vi­ron­ment for his re­cov­ery. They al­so wel­come as­sis­tance from med­ical pro­fes­sion­als, in­clud­ing neu­rol­o­gists and doc­tors who can help with long-term su­per­vi­sion and emer­gen­cies.

Mo­hammed-Khan is wide­ly re­spect­ed for his decades of ser­vice. Many know him from his years at Mal­ick Sec­ondary School as a teacher, dean, and vice prin­ci­pal. He al­so made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to foot­ball, serv­ing as gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL), man­ag­ing teams at the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), and lat­er act­ing as chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO) of San Juan Jabloteh Foot­ball Club—sup­port­ing gen­er­a­tions of young ath­letes, coach­es, and stu­dents across T&T.

Do­na­tion In­for­ma­tion:

Ac­count Name: Jami­la Mo­hammed-Khan

Bank: Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed

Ac­count Num­ber: 560008986431

Ac­count Type: Sav­ings

Email: aza­admkhan20@gmail.com