Sickle Cell Anemia and Tap Tap Drivers--September 2010
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Sickle Cell Anemia and Tap Tap Drivers
This 15-year-old boy has sickle cell disease.Both his parents are dead and he lives with his grandmother.
Two days ago he came to the hospital for fever and cough.
He took a tap-tap up the mountain alone to the hospital and the tap-tap driver stole 250 gourdes from this young man and quickly drove off.
I started him on antibiotics and he is holding a bottle of folic acid from my beautiful mom. Folic acid will help him form new blood cells while sickle cell disease destroys them.
He seems like a great kid.
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