“My wish is to be able to walk again so that I can at least visit my neighbors, children, grandchildren and have the ability to do a few chores at home and not become completely dependent on other people to look after me,” says Sabas.
Sabas is a seventy-year-old man from Tanzania. He is a husband, father of four, and a grandfather. Sabas used to be a farmer.
Sabas has difficulty walking without pain, due to osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease, in his right knee. The pain on Sabas’s right knee started ten years ago and has been increasing since then. Now, the osteoarthritis has advanced so far that his right knee has bent inwards making it painful to walk.
"It has become very difficult for Sabas to walk even a short distance due to excruciating pain on his right knee. It is especially difficult to stand up from a sitting position. If not treated, Sabas will end up becoming a bedridden person and completely dependent on other people," reports our medical partner, the African Mission Healthcare Foundation.
A total knee replacement will allow Sabas to walk without pain. He is covered by the national health insurance fund, but this does not cover the whole cost of total knee replacement. Let's raise $960 and help Sabas be the active man he wants to be!