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Dear friends and donors of Tulisa,
Time and again, we find that patients whose urgent need for treatment we had already identified suddenly cannot be traced. There are many reasons for this: an unexpected move, family conflicts, no telephone (anymore)… but unfortunately, in most cases, we simply do not know why.
This is also the case in the three instances described here:
1. Stanford
Stanford suffers from an unexplained, extremely disfiguring skin condition.
2. Jimmy
Little Jimmy was born with a deformity of his right foot (‘clubfoot’).
3. Florence
Florence lives with a nasal tumour (haemangioma) which grotesquely disfigures her and is increasingly hindering her ability to breathe through her nose.
These are patients whose whereabouts we do not know and whose parents cannot be reached by telephone or via ‘word of mouth’, and who are therefore untraceable (‘lost to follow-up’). They had attended a one-off consultation with our nurse Dottie at the clinic in Kibera.
All we can do now is hope that their parents will get in touch with Dottie again in the future. Fortunately, this has already happened several times in the past.
We at Tulisa have therefore had to redirect your donations to other patients. If you look at our other cases, we are sure you will agree with this decision.
Thank you very much for your understanding, also on behalf of Dottie!