Video: Cost of sickle cell: How patients are struggling silently with disease burden

Video: Cost of sickle cell: How patients are struggling silently with disease burden
  • By The Eastleigh Voice

At 41, Polycarp Wafula has lived with sickle cell disease for as long as he can remember. Diagnosed as a child, at a time when little was known about the condition in Kenya, he recalls a childhood filled with confusion, stigma, and endless hospital visits. “My mother didn’t understand what was happening to me. I was always in pain, always in and out of clinics,” he says. “Back then, there was no awareness. People thought it was witchcraft.” Read more: https://shorturl.at/Q8C49

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