Daily Monitor
Wednesday March 10 2021
Joel Opio, who suffers from nodding disease, with his family at their home in Telela dam, Aromo Sub-county, in Lira District on February 26. PHOTO/ ISAAC OTWII.
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Twenty-year-old Joel Opio lies helpless on a mat inside a dilapidated grass-thatched hut at Telela dam home Village, Barpii Parish, Aromo Sub-county in Lira District.
It is 2pm, and Opio has not moved out of his bed since sunrise. With the support of his mother, he comes out to take a sun bath and talks to visitors. Both his hands and legs have been paralysed as a result of prolonged illness.