SHORT TUBERCULOSIS PORTRAIT
Bosede Okanlawon
Cured but broken
Bosede (39) has an open attitude and a lovely face.
She looks small and frail. “You should have seen me four months ago”, she says with a laugh. “I was so weak.”
Bosede has recovered from multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the hospital at Jericho and is almost ready to go home: back to her husband and four children,
who have been staying with her family while she is in hospital.
- SHORT PORTRAITS
- Luckily, I was able to go back to my mother’s
- The prince is sick
- Follow the treatment properly now
- Resistant tuberculosis is no longer a death sentence
- I'm going to play football again
- We offer hope
- Cured, but broken
- Almost home
- Cured but unemployed
- I see 30 patients a day
- ‘My family stuck by me
TEXTS: Wendy Huyghe
PHOTOS: Tim Dirven @T.Dirven for Damien Foundation
- DAMIEN FOUNDATION
- Indifference kills, Damien Foundation heals
- Project Nigeria
- Tuberculosis
- Leprosy
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