Busingye is a farmer from Uganda. She is a married mother to seven children. Three of her children are primary school teachers, three boys are motorbike taxi drivers. Her husband is a small scale farmer and she also earns a living through practicing small scale farming.
Busingye has had a painful neck swelling for over ten years now. Busingye began to experience troubling symptoms, including difficulty swallowing and breathing. She was diagnosed with a goiter, 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 Busingye receive treatment. She is scheduled to undergo a thyroidectomy on February 4th at our medical partner’s care center. Surgeons will remove all or part of her thyroid gland. This procedure will cost $240, and she and her family need help raising money.
Busingye says, “I hope to feel fine after my surgery.”