Mother recounts her son’s costly dialysis ordeal, ending in burial
Christina Hamis (69) with her husband, Yohana Alute, at the grave of their son, Emmanuel Alute, who died on May 16 this year while undergoing dialysis treatment at Benjamin Mkapa Hospital in Dodoma. PHOTO | HERIETH MAKWETTA
Singida. Inside Makiungu Hospital in Ikungi District, Singida Region, a middle-aged woman sits quietly on a bench in the outpatient department.
Dressed in a black headscarf and a white khanga, Christina Hamis, 69, looks exhausted. Her eyes are heavy with grief and her hands are clasped tightly, as if holding back tears.
