A family in Mwingi wants help to raise Sh400,000 to treat their paralysed son who has had tuberculosis of the spinal cord for 16 years.
This has caused him to develop 19-year-old Simon Mwalimu develop mental problems.
Mwalimu has been to several hospitals in Mwingi, Thika and Nairobi’s Kenyatta National Hospital.
A mental checkup has not been done because his parents do not have the Sh20,000 needed for the examination at KNH.
Doctors say Mwalimu’s condition can only be improved if a mental checkup is done.
Mwalimu is taken to KNH every Friday and hismother Juliana Mwikali spends Sh7,000.
It has been two weeks since Mwalimu visited the clinic as Mwikali does not have money.
Mwikali yesterday said the Sh150,000 she borrowed last year to buy Mwalimu drugs and take him for checkups has run out.
She said she and her husband Reuben have sold their land and will have to sell household goods to pay for Mwalimu’s treatment.
“My husband earns little,” Mwikali said
