Kabazinguzi is a 39-year-old woman from Uganda. She is a single mother to four children. For work, Kabazinguzi farms cabbage and occasionally earns extra money by working at a nearby banana plantation. The father of her children is a carpenter. He helps pay for the children’s school fees, but is otherwise absent from their lives.
For the past two years, Kabazinguzi has been experiencing a burning sensation. Her menstrual cycles have also been irregular and unusually heavy. She sought advice from a local health clinic, but the medicine they gave her didn’t work. Clinic after clinic, she received similar medicine, with the same result.
Two of Kabasinguzi’s siblings had received healthcare support through Watsi at our medical partner’s care center, Holy Family Virika Hospital, and encouraged her to pay a visit. The doctors diagnosed Kabasinguzi with premalignant cervical cancer, and recommended that she have a total abdominal hysterectomy to remove her uterus and cervix as soon as possible. Without the surgery, the cancer will advance to other parts of her body.
Kabasinguzi cannot afford the surgery, so our medical partner, African Mission Healthcare Foundation, is requesting $268 to fund the treatment.
Kabasinguzi hopes that the hysterectomy will help her beat her cancer so that she can get back to farming and take care of her children. She’s grateful to Watsi for helping support her treatment.
