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Rubaisha is 11 years old. After spending nine futile years trying to find a cure for her deteriorating kidney condition at other hospitals, her mother brought her to SIUT 2002, where she was diagnosed as suffering from and stage renal failure. In 2005, she underwent a kidney transplant and after nine years she was able to live a normal healthy life. At last.

Firstly, her father was having difficulties finding a job. Her mother was struggling to make ends meet by stitching clothes to support Rubaisha, a son and another daughter.

Secondly, the success of Rubaisha's operation largely depended on preventing the risk of post operative infection. Unfortunately, Rubaisha's family was living in a single room in her uncle's house, and the risk of serious infection was high. However, given that Rubaisha's father was still without a job, her family could not afford to find alternative rented accommodation.

Rubaisha is just one of the many thousand of patients that come to us every year with a story that goes well beyond their medical condition.

This is when SIUT stepped in.

To give Rubaishas father the means to support his family and earn enough to pay the rent required, we bought him a vegetable cart.

Nest, we found suitable housing for Rubaisha’s family to stay during her three critical post-operative months and arranged to pay the rent with the security deposit.

Today, Rubaisha has mad a full recovery, despite the fact that her family circumstances remain difficult.