Sh20m treatment in India didn't help, Eldoret trip did

Madlene Cherop on her bed in the Intensive Care Unit ward, Tophill hospital,  Eldoret with her parents; Lydia Biwott (left), and Sgt. Richard Biwott. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

What began as a headache spiraled into a comma, a meningitis diagnosis and eventually into a brain condition that took her family to India seven times, blowing Sh20 million in the process.

Eventually, after seven years of seeking treatment abroad, Madlene Cherop was healed after an open-head surgery at a hospital in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County. The six-hour surgery was the first of its kind there.