Abandoned boy's hospital bill finally cleared
Mar 07, 2013
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.
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.
trueKirabira with her son after the operation at CURE, Mbale hospital. Photo by Gladys Kalibbala