Akiiza is 45-years-old, a widow, and mother of three. Two of her children are studying at the University and one has a beauty salon. Akiiza has a fresh foods business where she gets money to educate her children and look after the family. Akiiza feels lucky because both of her children at the University have partial scholarships; otherwise she wouldn’t be able to afford to pay for their education.
Akiiza started experiencing lower abdominal pain and bleeding in the year 2000. In the past five years, she started feeling numbness of the lower limbs. In 2013, she was diagnosed with fibroids, which were removed for free at a government hospital. After surgery, pain stopped but resumed at the beginning of 2016. Now, she is also feeling back pain and numbness of the lower limbs again. Akiiza has visited hospitals five times and each time she has been advised to have surgery but she is unable to pay for it. She was advised to come and seek for assistance at Virika hospital by a woman who received a total abdominal hysterectomy surgery from Watsi funding in the past.
Due to pain she is unable to lift heavy items and to travel on trucks. For $250, we can provide Akiiza with total abdominal hysterectomy surgery to remove her uterus, relieving her of pain and discomfort. After surgery she hopes to resume doing her business, which she had stopped because it involves a lot of lifting and traveling.
“My children look up to me for everything. I spend almost all the money I get on them. I want them to get good education,” shares Akiiza.
