Patience Kaingu, a form one
student at Sokoke Victory High School – Cassava, blames her parents for her
having to endure kidney pains for about four years now, without any medical
attention.
She explains the problem that
has, for a long time, deprived her of happiness and subsequently affected her
studies. According to her, she started experiencing chest pains early 2010 when
she was in primary school. Her mother took her to hospital but the treatment
she received could not solve the problem.
“I was taken to Kilifi District
Hospital because of the chest pains where I was given some drugs that made me
get better for about one week before the pains started again. I have never gone
back to the hospital since then,” narrates the 16 year old girl.
The situation changed from bad to
worse in mid 2010 when her kidneys too started aching, as Patience recalls.
“I then started experiencing
similar pains in the kidneys. It began with one kidney but now both of them
have been affected. The pains often get serious from time to time and when it so
happens, I hardly go for a short call. Sometimes I find it difficult to walk or
even stand upright. I normally suffer.”
Despite her situation sounding so
serious, very little has been done in terms of getting it treated, especially
the kidney problem whose medical history according to her only consists of
buying pain killers from a chemistry at Kakanjuni Trading Centre earlier this
year.
Patience’s lamentations clearly
seem to point a blaming finger to her parents for delaying her treatment. She
is afraid that further delays may result into more serious complications and
therefore calls for help in order to undergo treatment soon.
“I usually remind my parents
about my problem and the need for treatment but they always claim that they are
still in the process of looking for money,” says the aspiring surgeon.
Speaking to Ebenezer News Online through a telephone call on Thursday 9th
October, Patience’s mother Mrs. Dama Wanje confirmed her daughter’s ill
situation. According to her, she has once thought about an X-ray for her
daughter but due to lack of money, the plan could not be implemented.
