The saddest thing is that even though many times we carry out our work at the same villages, people tend to hide the kids who themselves made to suffer - this time Butangala Village, around 15km from Mutai.
We sponsor three kids to the boarding school at the nearby boarding school and as we accommodated those three children with new term approaching on the 23rd, we decided to visit families and people we work with at the same time.
We came across a young boy who seems very sweet and more than willing to honestly guides us to a child which is in a very bad condition.
He took us to this home which was made of bricks where a young and strong man welcomed us. THE FATHER, where besides him her quite hello whispered his wife.Isaac came half naked to greet us with the most miserable look about him.
His teeth have not developed well and majority of them were lost, therefore it is pretty hard for him to bite food and speak.
Isaac seemed very frightened and his skin on his body was very poor - marks and prints from poor sleeping, perhaps some scratches caused by a physical harm.
The father and mother told us that he has a problem with his stomach which causes him to vomit the food he eats, therefore he only can consume a glass of milk every day.
This was very hard to believe so I asked for a medical form from the hospital.
The medical report was dated around the 27th of July 2011 and the treatment Isaac was prescribed was "MULTIVITAMIN SYRUP". The father claimed the same to the doctor where Isaac would vomit all the food he would eat.
This child was clearly neglected and the parents were careless, perhaps wanted to end his life. The child didn't have his finger nails cut for weeks and they were very dirty.
His mother brought the second child which is a younger sister to Isaac, she is now around 2 years, a very fat and healthy baby.
Isaac's parents willingly agreed to give us Isaac straight away and take further care for him.
The same night Isaac was brought to our house however refused to eat any porridge or smashed food, neither drank tea or simple water. We tried to give him milk but he would aggressively refused to take even a bit of it. That night he went to sleep without any water and hungry - although some hours before he claimed he was very hungry and wanted food.
The next morning he again refused to drink water or take porridge, therefore we realized that this boy is scared of it. The only thing he would say was "I need to sleep"... "I need to sleep"....
We decided to take the hard and desperate measures, which was to apply a force ... with a help of our nurse, we forced him to drink the porridge which contained honey, milk, sugar, butter, g-nuts and a cocoa powder for the best nutrition supply. With our surprise Isaac didn't vomit. ... Isaac didn't vomit even after the next cup of porridge... Isaac actually never vomited and loved every cup thereafter.
After taking Isaac to the hospital the same day he was prescribed "just" amoxicillin for his cough and SENT HOME. I felt very suspicion and unhappy about how people treat this boy - not just his OWN parents but also people at the children's hospital.
The next day we decided to take Isaac to the dentist and x-ray for his chest and visit the same children's hospital again. We went to see different doctor (with a push from the only "helpful" nurse).
Tuberculosis is a fatal disease that often appeared in people with a low immune system - such are HIV positive people or severally malnourished children.
When the doctor saw the results of x-ray and Isaac health condition he asked if Isaac was measured his arm to see his malnourishment count the day we brought him to the hospital for the first time. The first day Isaac was simply refused to be admitted to the hospital and put on a nutrition program as well as as sent home on simple Amoxicillin tabs without any comments to be put onto the nutrition program.
I requested this doctor to help this boy and he only said "This boy is severally malnourished and can die without help, he must be admitted to the hospital and put on 6 months strict treatment for tuberculosis, you will miss one tablet only, you will need to repeat the 6 months corse again..., he may stay here perhaps for 3-4 weeks, depending on his diet improvements."
He also said that this time they had no cannulas to inject the patients as well as the TB treatment is missing at the hospital and around the area in the pharmacies and asked us to get that drug for him around the town.
After a long re-search we got an information that there is an only clinic which provides such drugs which we finally went to.
Isaac has improved so much for the last week being in the hospital. He loves to eat and drink, he smiles everytime we come to visit him - I never can wait to go to the hospital again to visit Isaac and other children we are helping at the moment.
The improvement in children after injecting small amount of cash is just amazing. Perhaps this is a story for my other blog.
Thank you to everyone who supports us at this time. Isaac may be discharged from the hospital in around 2 weeks time and will continue with nutrition food that we have to be making home-made at home because plumply nuts are out of stock in the hospital since May - and they are not anywhere on the market as they are not to be sold.
We have got all the paper work sorted for him and One World Orphanage will become the legal guardians after submitting the court orders next week.
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