In July last year, Nixon Abuya began feeling fatigued, lost his appetite but instead of a shrinking girth, he noted that his tummy was growing bigger and more painful as days went by.

“I thought it was a case of ulcers and treated it as such until I decided to seek a doctor’s opinion after three weeks of severe discomfort which now included vomiting blood, passing bloody stool, and swelling of the legs,” he says.