Ethan Macharia, a five-year-old boy, has penned an emotional message to President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Macharia and his mother Veronica Njeri, have been stuck in India for weeks unable to pay for the boy's surgery that he was set to undergo according to a report published by K24 Digital on Thursday, February 20.
In the five-year-old's letter, he appealed to the president and other Kenyans of goodwill to help him raise Ksh3.5 million to enable him undergo surgery for a brain injury.
The little boy's woes started in November 2018 when he fell down as he was playing.
During the time, Macharia critically injured his brain and developed seizures that have worsened over the years, causing harm to his body.
“My son was leading a normal life until the unfortunate incident that changed our lives forever. We have spent the last 14 months trying to raise money for what doctors call a Palliative VNS surgery that’s supposed to suppress his daily seizures as a result of the fall.
"This is the second time we are here in the last 14 months and we couldn’t raise enough money the first time," Njeri stated.
Ethan's doctors in India term the surgery as important, stating that they have used multiple drugs to control his condition, which have not been of help.
This is reportedly an option in only a subgroup of pharmacoresistant epileptic patients, where an epileptogenic focus is localized and amenable to surgical intervention.
The young boy aspires to be a footballer.
According to statistics by the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), more than 10,000 Kenyans seek treatment from India annually.
Kenyans are said to admire the low cost and speed and treatment in which diagnosis and treatment is done in the Country.
