Aijuka is 31 years old, married, and a small scale farmer. She never went to school because her mother, who is a single parent, left her and her sister at their grandparents’ home who couldn’t afford the cost of her school fees. Aijuka got married at the age of sixteen and earns a living through practicing farming along with her husband.
Aijuka presented with a painful supra umbilical swelling. She feels tenderness and abdominal discomfort. She says she can’t stretch her muscles surrounding the affected area.
Aijuka has been to a hospital seeking treatment to her condition but since she was recommended for surgery, which she didn’t undergo due to lack of money, she resorted to taking pain killers. She heard of the surgical program and support at Nyakibale Hospital and decided to come. Aijuka will have a cystectomy to treat her umbilical cystic mass and needs $220 to fund the treatment.