Controlling and preventing bleeding disorders, critical to better quality of life
She could not believe this was happening all over again and she knew she could not survive it this time.
Salamatu (not her real name) had experienced too much loss already and the thought of losing her only son sent shivers down her spine.
This mother had lost two children already, the first one at birth and the second on the eighth day of life from prolonged post-circumcision bleeding.
Kofi, the third son has hemophilia just like the first two and is lying limbless on the emergency table at the pediatric unit.
He was seriously battling for his life after a minor fall leading to a massive head bleed.
This has become the narrative of people living with Hemophilia in this era: a disease that literally means “loves to bleed.”
Hemophilia
Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder ...