A total of 35 teenagers and young adults facing urinary incontinence on Saturday received free surgery, courtesy of a group of five doctors from Saudi Arabia working under a team known as Physicians Across Continents (PAC), in partnership with Good Windows (NGO).
About $13m was set aside for the week-long programme expected to be extended to other hospitals across the country. Urinary incontinence is the inability to hold urine in the bladder because voluntary control over the urinary sphincter is either lost or weakened. Emmanuel Nkusi, one of the patients, said he contracted the disease ten years ago. He commended the volunteer doctors for the free treatment.
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