Student complains about delayed kidney treatment

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 9^th 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.