By Francis Koech
Uasin Gishu,Kenya: An 18-year-old boy who was among the best students in last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams is admitted in hospital and in dire need of help.
Perminus Nyakundi scored straight as in last year’s KCSE despite being away from school for over five months while receiving treatment.
Nyakundi has leukemia and is in urgent need of Sh4.5 million for treatment in India.
He was admitted at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret four weeks ago.
Nyakundi was forced to discontinue school after the doctor diagnosed him with leukemia in January 2012. He had to undergo a chemotherapy that began in January to May.
The son of a single mother scored an A plain of 81 points in the 2013 exam.
His dream is to become a neurosurgeon.
