12-year-old Richard Odama was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the brain. Odama has been lying in comma in the Intensive Care Unit of Lacor Hospital for two months.
Odama is helped to feed through the Nasogastric tube attached to his nose.
His mother Margaret Akello says that, they have been referred to Kampala where further examinations can be carried out on her son.
Akello, a cook at one of the vocational schools in Gulu says that she can not afford to raise enough money to transport and treat her son in Kampala.
Divorced with four children, Akello says Odama's condition worsened in January. She says her son started complaining of headache, cough and fever, before he suddenly became unconscious.
Akello has now launched an appeal to members of the public to help her raise money to treat her son.
Doctors at St Mary's hospital Lacor in Gulu where Odama is admitted in Intensive Care Unit say that the hospital lacks a Computer Tomography Scan that would help to investigate the cause for the complications that the boy is experiencing.
Michael Mawanda, a pediatrician who is handling Odama says that they need a Computer Tomography Scan to help determine their next course of action.
Mawanda says that most hospitals upcountry do not have the CT scan facility.
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Mawanda explains that tuberculosis develops gradually in children making it difficult to detect.
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