Sick and far from home

BY JUDITH ATIM

Paul Chinga is a 6-year-old boy currently admitted to Mulago Hospital with an ailment doctors suspect could be cancer.
“It all started with a high fever then later he started growing thin. For 26 days now the eyes are swollen shut and filled with a pus-like discharge,” James Baya, the boy’s father says.

Baya, a soldier had to travel all the way from Yei in South Sudan seeking treatment for his son’s ailment. “When he started falling sick, I took him to Yei

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