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Abandoned boy's hospital bill finally clearedPublish Date: Mar 07, 2013
Abandoned boy's hospital bill finally cleared
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Kirabira feeding her son after the operation at CURE, Mbale hospital. Photo by Gladys Kalibbala
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By Gladys Kalibbala     

The medical bill for abandoned Sharif Mukisa has finally been cleared, thanks to Saturday Vision readers. Among the recent contributors this week was Atwine Agaba, a P.3 pupil of Agakhan Primary School.
 
He contributed sh50,000. Another wellwisher, Kakuru, sent sh240,000. 
 
The two-year-old’s mother, Yozefina Kirabira, was grateful for the support offered towards the treatment of her son. 
“I thank Saturday Vision for publishing my story. It was through the story that I managed to get assistance,” she said. 
 
Mukisa, who has been suffering from a brain condition known as hydrocephalus, was operated on at CURE Hospital in Mbale. Kirabira says the head of the family, Saidi Musolo, a fisherman, abandoned her and their children, allegedly because he feared that his wife would give birth to another baby with a condition like Mukisa’s. 
 
Kirabira with her son after the operation at CURE, Mbale hospital. Photo by Gladys Kalibbala     

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