Triumphant sickle cell walk

May 24, 2016

Walkers blew trumpets, drawing the attention of people who gawked at them from inside buildings.

KAMPALA - Ahead of the sixth international sickle cell symposium due on May 25 - 27 in Kampala, an effervescent parade marching through the major streets and roads of the city was quite a good move to draw people's attention to the conference and the disease in general.

Scores turned up at Mulago School of Nursing and Midwifery to be a part of the Sickle Cell Walk 2016.

The walk attracted people from the Health ministry, sickle cell network, various stalk holders and individuals joined in the fight against Sickle cell Anaemia in the country.

 

Bonitah Nanziri, a fresh graduate of Makerere University, invented an app that diagnoses sickle cell anaemia.  So it was to her fulfillment to join in on the blowing of trumpets and create awareness about the sickness that silently killing people.

The sickle cell disease results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells.

Walkers blew trumpets, drawing the attention of people who gawked at them from inside buildings and at the road sides.

A band did much in energizing and bringing life to the parade all through the walk.

 
The procession left the nursing institution, crossed Yusuf Lule road, Nakesero lane and Buganda road to City Square where it turned to use the Kampala road back to the school.

The two-hour walk was followed by different activities including sickle cell screening and blood donation that carried on up to evening at the school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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