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Four-year-old Baby Larissa fighting Sickle-cell disease appeals for funds to get treatment in India

Now four, Baby Larissa has spent most of her life in and out of hospitals

Baby Larissa was diagnosed with sickle-cell disease (SCD) when she was three months old.

Now four, Baby Larissa Atieno has spent a good part of her life in ambulances and on hospital beds as she is constantly under attacks of pain- called sickle-cell crisis.

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