Accra — On one of Naomi Otua's regular trips to visit her grandson James in the town of Assin Fosu in Ghana's Central Region, she noticed something was seriously wrong. The 10-year-old's eyes were jaundiced and he had lost a significant amount of weight. Worried, Otua decided to take James to the Suhum Government Hospital.
James was then referred to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua where he remained on admission for three weeks. But his condition continued to deteriorate, and he was eventually referred to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, where he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, the most common form of childhood cancer.
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