Mariam Baraka’s son Mahir was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) by Clinical officer Pharnice at Miritini CDF. Mariam had been struggling with her son’s health for a long time, going from hospital to hospital with no improvement in his condition. The doctors would diagnose him with pneumonia and treat him, but the treatment never worked. […]
When 29 year old , Olal Ledon, a father of three and a teacher by professional started having cough that was often accompanied by chills in September 2022, he associated the symptoms to pneumonia. “I thought my routine of riding the motorcycle to and from school early morning and late in the evening when it […]
Irene Mirika, 40, a single mother of three and manual laborer, is a former TB patient and now a champion. She hails from Igembe South, Meru County. Her condition began with a persistent cough and later, a rapid loss of weight. The initial diagnosis at a private hospital was malaria. To add to her quandaries, […]
Nancy from Mshomoroni narrates how her two and a half-year-old son battled TB. The visits she made to numerous clinics bore no fruit. She carried her son’s pain. His neck was swollen. He had rashes, was coughing constantly, and had lost his appetite completely. “I had taken him to another facility where an x-ray had […]
The background of Tuberculosis in Kenya is of some interest, particularly to the writer. Its history is not very clear, but earlier medical workers did show that infection with TB has been prevalent along the Kenya coastline due to early contact with Europeans, Indians and Arab traders. It took some time for tuberculosis to spread […]
