BATSI NGIBOLILE – CANCER PATIENT TOLD TO GO HOME

PIGG’S PEAK – No one wants to die at the age of 30, especially a mother of three minor children.

This is the story of Phetsile Kunene who has been suffering from cervical cancer for three years.
On Wednesday, she was discharged from hospital with the words that there is nothing that can be done to treat her advanced condition – it is too late.

“Batsi ngibolile,” she said referring to a statement made  by medical staff while she was undergoing treatment at the Pigg’s Peak Government Hospital.

Cervical cancer is the cancer that affects a woman’s cervix and it is caused by the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Of all the womensuffering from  cervical cancer between 2014 and 2015 in Swaziland, 25 per cent of them died according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

It is the major killer in cancers that affect women, though it can be treated when diagnosed earlier.
Cancers are normally named after the body part that is affected, meaning that cancer of the cervix is called cervical cancer. Kunene has been suffering from the illness for about three years.

She is a mother of three children aged three, seven and 10, who will suffer the most should she succumb to the illness.
Her situation is so serious that she can no longer take care of her own children. Kunene is one of the many women suffering from cervical cancer but in her case, it is at a very advanced stage.

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