sickle cell utangulizi (greetings)

Naitwa Khadija Abubakari Kauli, nilizaliwa tarehe 19 mwezi wa 4 miaka 23 iliyopita katika hospitali ya taifa ya muhimbili, lengo langu kubwa la kuanzisha blog hii ni kwa ajili ya watu wenye sickle cell Tanzania.

Nimekuwa nikisikia vyama na kampeni mbalimbali za magonjwa sugu na yasiyo na tiba mbalimbali ikiwemo kifua kikuu, ukimwi, kansa na mengine mengi lakini kamwe sikuwahi kusikia hata siku moja mtu yeyote akizungumzia ugonjwa uitwao sickle cell anemia (upungufu wa damu ambao hurithishwa kutoka kwa wazazi kwenda kwa mtoto) ilihali ni ugonjwa ambao upo na kiukweli una athari kubwa sana hasa katika jamii za kiafrika, kwasababu hiyo basi watu wengi wamekuwa hawajui kuhusiana na ugonjwa huo hasa kwa nchini kwetu hapa Tanzania.

My name is khadija abubakari kauli, I was born 19th April 23 years ago at national hospital muhimbili, the main aim of establishing my new blog is for the sake of the people live with sickle cell anemia in Tanzania especially and my long term goal is to establish a centre for their care.

I have heard of many parties and lots of campaigns concerning getting rid of chronical diseases like TB, HIV/AIDS, cancer and many others but never in my life ever heard of any campaign or anyone talkin publicly concerning sickle cell disease actually sickle cell exist and it has a major effect in African societies, and for that reason many people are unaware about sickle cell especially here in our country Tanzania.