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Miriam Adhiambo in a ward with her son who is suffering from Sickle Cell anaemia at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) on October 19, 2021. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
The hospital has become the second home for Seline Museka and her husband Humphrey Egessah and their children with sickle cell disease.
The couple from Karagita in Naivasha town have four children- three of whom had disabilities. Their eldest underwent hip replacement surgery attributed to complications from avascular necrosis (temporary or permanent loss of blood supply to the bone) that can cause bone collapse.
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