www.newvision.co.ug Also Search 'Vincent Oketch' to see the Ugandan NTV Television story It all started when Oketch had just learnt how to walk. PHOTO by Kennedy Oryema By Chris Kiwawulo Vincent Oketch had just started trying out walking at the age of one-and-a-half years when a strange disease hit him. His legs started swelling out of the blue and gradually, his condition worsened. At first, his parents thought he had developed elephantiasis, but a medical check at Tororo hospital proved them wrong. Oketch's father, Tito Opoya said when his son's legs continued to swell, he gave up and left the issue in the hands of God. But in no time, the toddler was confined to a wheelchair. "Since then, he has used three wheel chairs with each bigger than the other," Opoya sid, seated beside his son at the hospital. Opoya said the boy was liked by his teachers since he was brilliant at Mbula primary school in Tororo where he was in P.2 until last year when he could no longer go for classes due to the ailment. "He eventually became too heavy and it required at least five men to lift him to school which was over a kilometer away from home," Opoya reminded. Good samaritan, Dr Isaac Osire (left) and Oketcho (centre) sitting on the hospital bed. Left is Opoya, his father. When seated, Oketch, now nine years old, occupies space of about four normal children of his age. On examination, doctors at the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services in Uganda (CORSU) in Entebbe, found out that his left ...
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