A 35 year old Francis Kemboi who has been working as a mechanic at Kabarnet town for the past fifteen years is now facing a double edged sword; he has to choose between his life and his family of six.
Kemboi who is the bread winner to a wife and five children has been cut short from his daily operations to provide for the family after being diagnosed with kidney failure at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret.
“This condition has paralyzed all my plans to support my family as I am unable to work anymore and have been forced to sell all I had invested including a motor vehicle,” Kemboi bewailed.
It all started with persistent headache, vomiting and diarrhea on February this year but Kemboi ignored the symptoms thinking it was malaria to which he sought medical consultancy from a local hospital before being diagnosed a month later with the disease.
The family members and relatives found it hard to believe what had befallen their loved one as such cases are infrequent and alarming in the area.
Nevertheless, with the help of his relatives and friends Kemboi is now being forced to undergo kidney dialysis two times per week without missing as failing to do so make him cough out blood rendering him anaemic.
His wife Alphatine Keitany is now loaded with heavy duty to take care of the ailing husband at the same time raise their children who are still at a tender age with the first born being in standard four and the younger having two years.
“My husband has been feeding us without fail since we got married, he managed to send some of our children to a private school and ensured we live contented but since he got sick I have been struggling to make ends meet at times sleeping without food,” Alpthatine mourned.
To Alphatine life has reached a death end as her future is now doomed since she cannot predict the outcome of her husband's sickness but all the same she has chosen to abide in him.
Daniel Cheboi a relative to the family chipped in to support Kemboi's family to a point of selling his belongings though he has been financially unstable at the moment since the teachers strike on September cut off his source of income.
Kemboi's younger brother, Emanuel Kimutai is ready to donate his kidney for transplant but the family who has now indebted the referral hospital cash amounting to ksh 45,000 as the dialysis cost ksh 7,500 per session is unable to raise the amount required.
Cheboi revealed that they have spent extra costs on transport and booking arrangements as many patients use the available facility for dialysis in MTRH as most county referral hospitals lack them.
Kemboi's family wish the County referral hospital in Baringo could buy the facility in order to salvage patients who undergo dialysis from incurring extra expenses.
William Rerimoi senior assistant chief in Kapcherebet sub-location where Kemboi lives confirmed that three other patients are suffering from the same disease.
The family who live in Kabarnet's Kapkut area now lays their hope on the hands of well wishers to raise the money needed for kidney transplant in India after hosting five fundraisings for dialysis.
Friday, 6 November 2015
Mechanic facing a double edged sword at 35
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