On May 7, Herbert Busingye, 26, fell ill and was admitted at Nsambya hospital. He was diagnosed with malaria.
Busingye, later started bleeding severely through the gum, he would later lack blood.
To Molly Musana, Herbert’s mother, the dark days of 2010 and 2014 had bounced back to haunt her.
After a thorough diagnosis, it was proved that Herbert Busingye is suffering from Plastic Anaemia a result of bone marrow failure.
With that fatal disease, the bone marrow is unable to manufacture red blood cells and therefore the patient only depends on blood transfusion but that is not sustained for years as the body overtime rejects this external blood.
Molly Musana, a Kindergarten teacher at St Christina, in Hoima, is currently nursing her third son who is bedridden at a relative’s residence in Muyenga- a high end Kampala suburb.
Busingye has been admitted in hospital nine times in two months.
Agony
Sobbing in tears, Molly told this website yesterday, Busingye’s youngest brother who was in S6 in 2010 succumbed to the same disease in 2010 after doctors had recommended for bone marrow transplant in India.
“But the millions needed for this operation, as family we couldn’t afford it,” Molly said.
She said after suffering this deadly disease, her son would only survive for 6 months.
Another son in 2014 lived for 8 months and he passed on helplessly, “I have buried them. I don’t want to bury my third son,” Molly broke down in the middle of the interview.
Her husband Joseph Musana, a police officer in Mpigi was unable to save his sons because of the financial constraints.
Hope
When the Musana family approached medics at Mulago they were told that Busingye can be operated in India if they can raise shs s340 million.
However, the grieving grief-stricken family learnt that a relative (a cousin to Joseph Musana) had been flown to India and was undergoing an operation.
“He negotiated with his personal doctor in India who agreed to treat my son if we can raise shs 130M,” Molly said.
Adding that she was advised that there are two treatment options for Busingye.
“When he reaches India he will either be given medication to neutralize his cells so that his bone marrow and normalise again and start manufacturing blood,” she said.
The second alternative is to undergo a bone marrow transplant where a donor happens to be his younger brother Simon Peter Taremwa.
With this news the family has hope that their eldest son will survive.
“But question is how we shall raise the money. The doctors advised that in order to have a successful operation we must go to India in 3 months. So far he has been sick for 2 months,” Molly said.
A quick glimpse on the patient clearly tells that he is in total pain with terrible migraine.
He was unable to talk to us.
The family appeals to well-wishers to donate some money to save a life.
His Mother can be reached on 0782990078
