When eight-year-old Rena Kaitesi got a slight fever and was unable to study for one day, no one suspected she had a kidney problem. She was treated for malaria and was back in school after five days. However, her body gradually succumbed to weakness, pain and vomiting.
In August last year, her body started swelling uncontrollably. Her movement was paralysed and vision blinded. Dr Robert Kalyesubula, a nephrologist at Mulago hospital, explains that the swelling happens when one's kidneys lose their ability to remove different types of waste from the blood.
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