The non-governmental organization, Rowaca Cancer Group – Sierra Leone, with the support of Childhood Cancer (CHOC) South Africa is presently advocating for the provision of medical help for 3 year 7 months old Zainab Koroma who is blind in the one eye and presently suffering from excessive tumor in the affected eye. Zainab Kamara was healthy when she was born and life was promising for her young parents until an elderly person said to them she was not a normal girl- her eyes see beyond the normal person. Her parent took her to a tribal doctor who used herbs in her eyes. Her mother said she later noticed Zainab scratching her eye. “We noticed later that she was not seeing properly and we took her to the Magbeseneh hospital but we were referred to the Eye clinic where we were informed her eye had become faulty. According to the parent she totally lost her sight in the one eye but that two months ago the bad eye was swollen. “Now the doctors said her case is serious,” lamented her o...
Rowaka Cancer Group-Sierra Leone is a local non Governmental Organization and supports the LIVESTRONG Foundation, with aims and objectives to reach out to Sierra Leoneans affected by cancer or those suffering from cancer.