Kemirembe is a 63-year-old farmer from Uganda. She is a widow and shared that she lost her husband in 2011 leaving her with four children. All of her children are now married and are farmers. She earns a living from her banana and coffee plantation but at times has some small gardens of food crops like beans, millet, and groundnuts for them to eat at home and sells off the surplus to buy family necessities like soup, salt, and a matchbox.
Nearly 20 years ago, Kemirembe began to experience troubling symptoms, including disfigurement sometimes causes her airway obstruction, difficulty in breathing, persistent headaches and consistent heart palpitations. She was diagnosed with a goitre, an abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland. She needs surgery to prevent her symptoms from getting worse.
Our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is helping Kemirembe receive treatment. She is scheduled to undergo a thyroidectomy on June 9th at our medical partner’s care center. Surgeons will remove all or part of her thyroid gland. This procedure will cost $264, and she and her family need help raising money.
Kemirembe says: “I think my health will be restored because it has been outstanding over the years in that I had even lost hope but since God does things his way, am now looking forward to being treated with Watsi’s support in hope of regaining my health and continuing with cultivation once I have succeeded.”
