Waging war against a silent killer – The MDex Story
Recently a regular Sunday evening in February turned somber. On Ugandan social media anyway. When glowing eulogies of the work and life of an African literary sage best known (online) as Nevender filled our timelines. He was a warrior, an advocate for better healthcare delivery for Sickle Cell Anemia ( which we shall refer to as SCA in this story) sicklers, a wonderful man, a brilliant wordsmith, an irreplaceable friend and everything in between. We were robbed of so much. And we continue to lose so many little ones and their potential contribution to a better world. It might come as a surprise to many that in this information age which you revel and benefit a great deal from , a great majority of our countrymen and women living in our ancestral lands still bundle up "mysterious" health conditions such as SCA as acts of evil, witchcraft and curses upon sicklers and their families. Sickle - cell disease (SCD) is a group of blood disorders typically inherited from a per
