Kampala — Pricked sharply by pain and numbed by a chilling hill-top morning breeze, Bronia Naturinda wobbled out of her tiny hostel room to the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) at Mulago hospital, seeking treatment for cervical cancer.
The radiotherapy treatment had been scheduled weeks earlier, and Ms Naturinda, 28, was anxious for the session during which radioactive waves are beamed to kill targeted cancer cells.
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