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.
Cherop’s father, sergeant Richard Biwott, told Health & Science that his daughter first complained of a headache in December 2014 while in Form Two.
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