Prayers go to Kawala Harriet from Bugembe

After taking this photo
she visited doctor about her condition.  

On Tuesday Whisper was contacted to urgently go and see a young lady called Kawala Harriet in Bugembe village.

Harriet is a beautiful young mother of three children. The youngest is only 11 month old and had to stop breast feeding 8 month ago because Harriet health condition worsen, once what started like a toothache and at the same time a pimple just right next to her right eye.

Harriet with her last born child, 2012

Year and half ago she was treated unsuccessfully for her tooth infection which has not healed properly. She also said that she developed a small pimple and after that all face swollen. On the photo above, she has already felt her face swollen, so she visited a doctor who prescribed antibiotics for her. They helped to take the swelling down, however some wound remind and ever since her immunity failed to heal it.

The wound produces lots of pus and it as enlarging until she lost the whole right cheeks, half of her nose and right eye.

Harriet suffers unbearably. It is extremely difficult for her to eat, because the wound has broken into her mouth, so the food just leaks out through the wound. This girl needs help and I cannot sit here knowing there is such a young lady dying alive slowly...

There is a great amount of unpleasant smell around her, because her face is rotting!!

She needs lots of vitamins and good food to strengthen her immunity. Her mother and her sister are the ones caring for her. They applied some local herb on the top of the wound, which made it dry, but it is not healing from inside and they fail to go to any specialist because they simply do not have the money.

She also informed us of some tablets she was  given, of which they think it must have been helping because she could feel some healing within the wound. However they could not afford the tablets as each tablet was 10.000 shillings = £2.50 (people in Uganda survive on $1 a day. )

We hope to take her to the main hospital he in Jinja with her papers, and then see if we can do some proper blood test which can diagnose the bacteria and her  condition.

I want to believe that she will survive and she will once live a life with hope.

The least we could do is to buy for her some 24l of long lasting milk, 5kg of sugar, 20 kg of rice, 10 kg of beans, oil, 2kg of onion, garlic, 2kg of passion fruits, 3 pineapples, bag of oranges, lemons, a kilo of meat, half kilo of ginger , painkillers, disinfectant, gloves and some cotton for cleaning the wound. All that at around £31.

Whisper managed to contact the biggest newspapers in Uganda called New Vision, who promised to come on Tuesday to take her story, which we hope can help to get more people involved around the country with her treatment.

For now, we all pray for this young mother (she is only 25 years old), so she can have lots of faith, strength, and not losing any hope. she is a great fighter to fight up to now, and I believe there is a good reason for that.

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Veronika