Sh20m treatment in India didn t help, Eldoret trip did
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Madlene Cherop on her bed in the Intensive Care Unit ward, Tophill hospital, Eldoret with her parents; Lydia Biwott (left), and Sgt. Richard Biwott. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]
What began as a headache spiraled into a comma, a meningitis diagnosis and eventually into a brain condition that took her family to India seven times, blowing Sh20 million in the process.
Eventually, after seven years of seeking treatment abroad, Madlene Cherop was healed after an open-head surgery at a hospital in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. The six-hour surgery was the first of its kind there.
THE STANDARD By
Faith Kutere |
March 12th 2021 at 16:38:59 GMT +0300
Madlene Cherop, 23, and her father Sergeant Richard have flown to India seven times in the past six years seeking medication in which two surgical operations, embolization and radiosurgery were done to treat her brain haemorrhage.
They all failed since the condition recurred.
But after battling the rare brain condition known as Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) for seven years, Madlene underwent a successful surgery a week ago to remove it.
She has been in and out of the hospital, suffering from severe headaches and could sometimes pass out since 2014 when she was a student at Bishop Njenga Girls’ High School.