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Ugandan living without kidneys, bladder

Tumusiime gave one kidney to his father; cancer later took his last one. “We investigated him and found that he had stage two cancer, so, instead of treating him, we gave him a cure: A cure to remove the organs with cancer, and these were the [remaining] kidney, ureter, bladder and prostate,” Dr Ssekitooleko says.

45-year old Moses Tumusiime lives without both kidneys, a bladder and prostrate.
By: John Musenze, Journalist @New Vision


WAKISO - The kidneys’ main body function is to filter blood and excrete waste in the form of urine, stored temporarily in the bladder. However, one Ugandan continues

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Moses Tumusiime
Dr Badru Ssekitooleko