The family of an ailing eight year-old Abubakar Abdi is crying for medical assistance to facilitate the recovery of their son who is currently battling lung cancer.
A visit by this writer to the family of the cancer victim revealed a wanting situation.
Lying helplessly on his bed, the innocent Abubakar painfully writhes not knowing his fate.
The parents, alike, say they have spent all the few coins they had saved to restore the health of their son to normalcy.
The parents disclosed that they first learnt that Abubakar was suffering from lung cancer after they took him to hospital following weeks of coughs with blood-stained sputum.
It is then that they decided to seek medical intervention at a local hospital, where he was given antibiotics with the precept that it was common cold.
After a month, the situation worsened and that is when they took him to a city hospital where he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
"He was very healthy until one day when I realized blood in his sputum when he coughs. I took him to hospital and he was given treatment. The coughing did not stop. I took him to another hospital and they said he had a lung cancer," said Abdi Maalim, the father.
Due to regular chemotherapy exercises, the family has been forced to relocate from Garissa to Eastleigh so their son may get the necessary attention from the Nairobi-based cancer specialists.
The close-to-hopeless parents further said that their efforts to contact local leaders for assistance have been futile, stating that the leaders, especially politicians, promise to get back only to vanish to thin air.
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