Pictures circulating on social media especially WhatsApp groups indicate that there is a great improvement on Viola Nagasha’s health at the cancer ward. The images show a jolly Viola who actually walks about the hospital on her own, sits upright and laughs with her visitors at the hospital. She does manage to speak but not clearly because her throat hurts.
Nagasha Viola is the student of Uganda Christian University (UCU) that is currently battling Acute lymphoblastic leukemia also known as the cancer of the blood. She is currently admitted at Mildmay Hospital at Entebbe where she has been since the 10th of June, the time when the doctors from Mulago Hospital Cancer Ward discharged her.
At Mildmay, a doctor is following up on the probable complications that may have arisen from her treatment at Mulago especially that are affecting her eyes and the throat.
“We expect to review her in a few weeks” reads the medical report from the cancer institute by the Doctor who was treating her, Clement Okello “and start on a consolidation chemotherapy when her eye condition is stable.”
However, the doctors that will be treating her in India say she needs to go for the surgery “as early as possible” because she is in remission. The doctors met with Daphne, Viola’s caretaker and told her to have her taken to India urgently.
Her condition is improving, and the cancer cells in her body are reducing allowing her to look healthy. The remission stage is the right time to have the surgery according to her doctor before the cells are able to reproduce again and worsen her condition.
The financial constraints however still exist. The patient still needs up to Shs. 94 million to be able to complete surgery in India. A total of Shs. 108 million is required to have the surgery and not even a half of that sum has been collected.
The doctor from India told the caretaker that she can be taken for surgery with the little she has as more money is being collected which would be sent later. He told her that Shs. 20 million can do for the start.
Daphne hopes that if they are able to raise at least the Shs. 20 million by next week, they will take Viola for the surgery then.
For any contributions to #SaveViola, especially through Mobile Money, use the sister’s phone number (Daphne) 0703036488 or the UCU Guild president 0784407356.
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