At one, my baby needed Sh8 million liver transplant

Carolyn Waruguru Karanja with her late daughter Elyana. [Courtesy]

Carolyn Waruguru Karanja was ready for motherhood, but didn’t imagine it would stretch to endless hospital visits. To her, hospitals were for postnatal clinic checkups only.  But running around medical facilities shortly became her new reality when her daughter, Elyana, was diagnosed with biliary atresia six weeks after her birth on January 20, 2020.

Biliary atresia occurs when the bile duct between the liver and the intestines is obstructed and “this condition leads to very little or no bile juice flow to the intestines and thereby damages the liver,” says Waruguru of the doctor’s explanation of the condition.