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Photos: Choma Boy With Elephantiasis Seeks Help
A Nineteen-year old boy of Choma who has an extreme swelling on his right leg suspected to be elephantiasis has appealed for financial support from well-wishers to treat the disorder.
Elephantiasis is a parasitic infection that causes extreme swelling in the arms or legs. It is typically characterised by a thickening of the skin and subcutaneous tissue that leads to enlarged and swollen limbs.
Given Phiri, an orphan from Zambia Township, started experiencing a snag on his leg while in grade eight at Nkalamabwe Primary School in Chongwe before his leg started swelling.
In a walk-in interview with the Times of Zambia in Choma yesterday, Phiri said at first he had dreamt that he had been injured while playing football before his leg started itching.
He went to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) where doctors told him the leg had a fungal infection.
“Even now it is swelling with a thickening skin. I have difficulties to walk,” said Phiri amid sobs.
The boy, whose father and mother died in 2007 and 2009, respectively, dropped out of school while in grade eight due to the complication on his leg.
He was unable to go for specialist treatment apart from UTH where the Bukata Women Empowerment organisation took him last year.
Phiri was unable to buy the recommended drugs with other medical utensils and disinfectants.
Posted by Kunda
on August 20, 2015. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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New Educated Zambia©❤√
August 20, 2015 at 6:32 pm
A country rich with resources is failing medically treat a patient who is a citzen. A sign of PFs failure to ensure universal health access. We are begging you all to do the right thing and vote upnd in 2016.
CHRISTINE
August 20, 2015 at 9:00 pm
Pwii
August 20, 2015 at 7:45 pm
Iwe same one is asking for help then u start saying vote upnd help him then tel him to vote for your party, walikwata ubwafya kumutwe. May God cure you mwaiche wandi.
Uncle B.L.G
August 20, 2015 at 7:48 pm
I recall in the early 90’s or late 80’s this disease was everywhere in lsk but since the late 90’s to date it had reduced by 95%.
Where have we gone wrong as a country for it to come back?
Shaka Zulu
August 20, 2015 at 7:56 pm
Pwii you are right.NEZ has/is a problem.Instead of pledging some help to the youngman in pain,the chap starts politicking.You can now understand why he is always telling us about imaginary trips.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
August 20, 2015 at 8:40 pm
What is ministry of health doing wechipuba we. You are too used to suffering yet lungu is flying around getting best medication
New Educated Zambia©❤√
August 20, 2015 at 8:50 pm
Good evening zambia. We in the upnd would like to inform you that as of today we have opened our luanshya offices. You are all welcome to join the upnd and invite family and friends. Help us to help you. We thank you. Nez live from Geneva Switzerland,upnd strategist
Shaka Zulu
August 20, 2015 at 9:10 pm
NEZ bukala bobe you are a megalomaniac who needs a lot of introspection.You are a big idiot just decampaigning the UPND through your stupidity.
tutu
August 20, 2015 at 9:51 pm
my heart heavy with pity for this young man..bafikala naimwe mwebafyuma uko kuchoma am sure ilyashi yamwaiche uyu mwalilyufwa,help the kid bamabolo imwe ts nt that expensive!!
cracker chocholi..
August 20, 2015 at 9:55 pm
Ned u are destroying th upnd..u may think u srr helping it grow bt alas u are making pipo hate it coz of yo poliyicking..iam s tonga and upnd bt u sre a let down.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
August 20, 2015 at 11:07 pm
what has your tribe got to do with anything? I am not tonga and I am a UPND hardcore supporter. So what? who cares?
Hello Haters
August 20, 2015 at 10:27 pm
iwe we mwaume @cracker chochola leka ubufi,pf cadres mwalikolwa na 90 days.
Sinx
August 20, 2015 at 10:33 pm
You have been saying Hh has money ,vote Ka upnd the y oung man is sick buy him medicine since the country had no money only Ka upnd.
cracker chocholi..
August 21, 2015 at 4:30 am
Ned take out my vote from upnd.u sre even saying who cares.hardcore supporter whos destroying th name of upnd.iam not voting.whether u like it or not upnd is 95% a tonga party..niyathu ba tonga bwana olo mukane bwanji thts why we are putting maureen,nalumango,canicious,mutati and now gbm ku from to try and make pipo think we are not tribal…we are vry united as tongas…
TUNTUSHE
August 21, 2015 at 8:24 am
NEZ’s blogs really stinks! is there anything good that comes out of satanical mouth?. He’s such a myopic dunderhead ,cretin and a philistine belonging to the late stone age era. look at his always predictable dirt comments!it’s all about blagging and belittling the so much important potential voters. l salute you all bloggers who’ve stopped minding his stinking retrogressive political comments. it’s a big up to you! as for myself i only do this when this ‘konto’ gets under my skin undetected.
NAILS
August 21, 2015 at 9:19 am
THESE ARE SOME OF THE CASES YOUR MINISTER OF HEALTH SHOULD TREAT WITH SOBERNESS.IF IT WAS LUNGU THIS TIME HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FLOWN ALREADY. EFYO AFENTELA
observer
August 21, 2015 at 10:15 am
the more you personally hate the pf president the more irrelevant you become.offer solution where you think the government is not doing good,how you can solve the problem
matters to all of us.
BRINGITON!
August 21, 2015 at 10:17 am
GOODMORNING.i can only encourage him 2trust GOD NOT PEOPLE.he can try looking 4help but if jesus is not involved everything is useless.jesus is the must healer it only takes faith and believing that he is the sam yesterday,2day,and 4ever.
bd
August 21, 2015 at 11:29 am
where is the area mp? business leaders in choma or hh its his domain show us what we should expect if or when you form government katwish nga nilisa!..
J. CHiiiKALI!
August 21, 2015 at 11:49 am
Nga ilya vaccination programme yaliko naba ministry of health yalipwa filyafine umuti walipwa nangu ichalo chali diverter all tok is about ZESCO????
mamajee
August 22, 2015 at 11:43 am
let mr hh and gbm, show the Zambians that they are true leaders by supporting that boy with medication, we are not in politics.