Seven year old Jeremiah Tenywa has been in pain for over three years after an injection which was meant to cure his malaria but instead turn his life to a misery. Tenywa a primary one pupil at Little Muheji Primary school developed what doctors described as a post injection paralysis. His mother Esther Nabirye took him to a small clinic in Nansana, Wakiso district in 2009 where he was diagnosed with malaria and he was injected on the buttocks with quinine medicine that is when the problem of her son started. “Upon reaching home, the boy could hardly stand and I immediately took him back to the clinic and reported to the doctor that my child was developing a disability,” she narrates. Nabirye said that she got confused and did not know what to do because her son was slowly developing disability and was advised to take Tenywa to Katalemwa Chesire Home for treatment. Emmanuel Ssekidde a psychiatric nursing officer at Katalemwa Chesire Home said that Tenywa was injected in
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