I have learnt of Titus case and the others who are undergoing treatment @ KNH.

I was at the place and it's in a sorry state being a tent at the far end of the KNH hospital.

people there are all in musks and the situationis worrying.

I could see patients peeping from the corner of tents to have a glimpse of their next companion for years but fortunately, for me, I had gone there to cover a story.

With Titus is Walter Orina who gave me his story of how he lost his business when he was diagnosed with the devastating TB strain-the MDR-TB.

His wife for years had to run away after selling all whatthey had procured together.

The stigma to him is what at one time made him nearly commit suicide but with the help of his motherr and brother, he changed his mind.

The situation at Mathare slums , East of Kenyas capital-Nairobi is mysterable.

Jane Waithera was diagnosed with the normal TB in 2008 January and put under medication.
Along the way she had to abscord due to the
side effects she got from the drugs she took.

She could visit a healthfacility at her neighborhood daily for injections and getting drugs.

This is what made her default the therapy after her neighbor started pointing fingers on her and talking ill of her.

She developed MDR-TB as a result of stigma in the society. Now she just sleeps onher tiny bed peeping through gaps in her hut-enclousure and waiting for the day to die.

Back to Titus case, he confided to me that at one time he had to go back to his rural home to sell a piece of land to get some cash for his upkeep and the gazes he got from the people there told more than the words could.

When he was leaving Aga Khan Mombasa-along the Indian Ocean Coast, his wife got an injury on her leg.

Thus there was no one totake care of the young children and a foster one he took care of. He thus ordered his mother to come and collect them and take them to thier rural home in Machakos.

The villagers were afraid of this disease that could make his children to be taken care of by the aging parents, a thing that is not commong witht the Akamba community he comes from.

One friend confided to him that they thought taht he was dead together with his wife.

Titus and Walter are onthe move and they have vowed to marshal on with the drugs despite the long period they takes.

Some are exremely bitter as Dr Johnstone Wafula says, a Specialist in respiratory disease at the KNH, butyone has to fully comply or else MDR-TB developes.

He has also said that it's time Kenya declares TB a national disaster before the whole population is wiped out.

He addsa tha TB being an airborne desease one is not bound to infection.

Strong and urgent measures must be taken to halt the spread.