This is the story of Mary and her child Raymond...

When Mary brought her visibly weak four-year-old son, Raymond to the clinic in Agonga, she could not stop crying because her son was very weak and frail. She explained to the nurse that he had been sick all night and had not eaten. His body temperature was high and his eyes were all pale. On seeing the condition of the boy the clinician immediately started out on treatment to get the boy stable.



By afternoon he had not improved and the clinician felt that there was need to refer this child to another hospital. A boda boda (motorcycle) was the only option because this is the only means of transport available. But Raymond could hardly sit, he was too weak, his condition was not improving and he needed further medical attention. However, luck had it on this afternoon that a vehicle that was coming from Sudan was passing by and the health centre team requested them to stop and take Raymond and her mother to the hospital in town.

On reaching town Raymond was admitted and started receiving treatment. Without this Raymond’s condition would have continued to deteriorate. His mother came back to the clinic two weeks later to thank us and tell us that Raymond was recovering. The sad thing is that without transport many do not make it to the hospital. But you know the end.