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Robiana Muteka has incurable cancer

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FILE: President Sata visits Robiana Muteka at the University Teaching hospital

University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Managing Director Lackson Kasonka has disclosed that the recent operation which resulted in the removal of a 14.5 kg tumour from the back of 24-year-old Robiana Muteka has not cured his problem.

Dr Kasonka said Robiana had been kept at UTH even after removal of the tumour because doctors wanted to monitor him as his case was peculiar and special and that the tumour was unpredictable.

He said Robiana had been undergoing weekly repeated blood tests and X-ray scans, among other tests and that the findings were that the tumour, which he described as neurofibromatosis, had continued to grow.

“It has migrated into the lungs. There is a growth of the same tumour in the lungs. What started as a non-cancerous tumour is rather cancerous,” he said.

He said one of Robiana’s lungs had literally been covered by the tumour thus rendering it “virtually useless” and that if he had to be operated on, the affected lung had to be removed.

Dr Kasonka said there were a number of things that needed to be considered before the 24-year-old Livingstone based Robiana could undergo another operation.

He said given the unpredictable nature of his disease, a similar thing would have occurred at any other health institution after the initial operation.

He said by and large, Robiana had been complaining of body pains.

Robiana was evacuated to the UTH in March this year from Livingstone following President Michael Sata’s directive to enable the youth access specialist treatment.

And Government has evacuated 24 year old Florence Mampa whose breasts have grown out of proportion from Samfya to Lusaka where she will undergo a series of tests at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH).

Community Development, Mother and Child Health Deputy Minister Jean Kapata who this morning flew to Samfya to get the patient and her mother said the patient will straightaway be admitted to UTH where doctors will start assessing her condition.

ZANIS reports that Ms. Kapata told journalists upon arrival from Samfya at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport that UTH Managing Director Dr. Lackson Kasonka has already organized a team of medical experts who will attend to the patient.

The Deputy Minister thanked Meanwood Investments Proprietor Robinson Zulu for chartering a plane to evacuate the patient from Samfya to Lusaka.

She urged the corporate world to partner with the Ministry of Community Development in helping people that are afflicted with different diseases especially in rural areas.

Ms. Kapata expressed optimism that Ms. Mampa’s case will be a success story just like that of Robiana Muteka where doctors at UTH managed to remove a 14.7 Kg tumor from his back.

And mother of the patient, Vivian Mampa thanked Government for the support and assistance it has given to her daughter in a bid to find a solution for her predicament.

Mrs. Mampa said with the care that Government is showing on the health and general wellbeing of its citizens, few people will be dying even from complicated cases.

39 COMMENTS

  1. Robby’s story is very disheartening, our prayers are with you and your family, may the Lord spread his healing hand upon you. Ba Florence, we also put you in our prayers and may the Lord give wisdom the doctors attending to you.

  2. so sad…where is the world heading to…i pray that robiana and many others praying and wishing for a normal life to be granted one in Jesus name..

  3. This whole episode of Robiana has been turned into a political thing.Did it really have to take the president or top government officials to intervene? Where were the doctors and medical staff?

  4. We have wonderful surgeons and cancer Specialists in Zambia but sadly they cannot perform miracles. Cases that are referred to them too late are usually beyond stage four. We need a huge Public Awareness Campaign to tell people Cancer can frequently be cured BUT ONLY IF CAUGHT IN THE EARLY STAGES AND THAT IT GROWS FAST AND SPREADS QUICKLY IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.

  5. God is great and will hear our prayers, coz he is the creator. Robiana and Florence God is with you! Amen.

  6. In God all things are possible. We ask God for healing mercies. We pray that rub receive treatment and good health he deserves.

  7. how the mafia works,robinson zulu chattering a plane for such a humanitarian event, chapwa awina 10-0 even ukwa will be pimpressed

  8. LT, I think the name of the tumour or cancer is NEUROFIBROMATOSIS. There are several forms of the inherited neurofibromatosis and when it transforms into the bad kind, it is called malignant peripheral nerve tumour (MPNT). Just look it up on google.

    Prayers for dear Robby.

  9. Where are your useless “Men of gold” in all this when they claim to cure headaches and diorrhea? Call that magician TB something to help Robiana… Brain washed!

  10. Those who turned him down from receiving medical help in the initial stages should be ashamed of themselves.

  11. The head of state should not have involved himself in this case rather the medical experts should have been left to deal with this.The poor boy was just further stressed with surgery which did not even cure him.The first rule of medicine in DO NO HARM. Doctors must have been pressurized to operate when the the mass will just grow back again.Rather there should be more public awareness campaigns and screening.Also proper health care systems.The president should leave health matters to the Minister of Health and his PS.

  12. Things are not normal in Zambia mwe – why are lay ministers and the like getting this involved in evacuating patients? Kumfwa manone yendeke? Where are the people staying patients and the doctors at the nearby mobile hopsital, or whatever doing all the time before it becomes a ministrial duty? If you have a patient nearby who can’t see a ready solution – help with information; that there is UTH, etc, and mobilise help and other arrangements for them to travel before the politicians travel all the way from Lusaka. I decry the demise of Humanism, because even the helping heart went with it!

  13. this makes very sad reading. may our prayers be answered.am sure it disturbs us to see that Robby was taken late. people please lets part away with the attitude of sitting on our problems. if the one you go to cant help you scream for the next medical person in the line of helping you. if our dear brother had refused to leave the first hospital he went to until someone looked at his case, we wouldn’t be in this position. people close to him should have done the same. the should even have demonstrated other than wait for this to happen.

  14. From comments, sounds like we have many christians in Zambia. I feel the problem for the guy has been exacerbated by the order to move to UTH from the tourist capital. He would have lived longer than what things appear now.

  15. take him south africa you fools )) we have a cancer hospital but you sons of the beaches couldnt determine that it was cancerous .

  16. Fault Finder #15, when people do good things that we are not able to do, we must be appreciative. Think about it, if the majority in our society were able to emulate the good done by others, Zambia would be much better than it is today. One Zambia One Nation.

  17. Sad reading,,we commit all to the Lord in prayer– for no situation is above God—try the healing school with Believers Love World- Christ Embassy President….So sad mwe…

  18. Father God of Abraham, ,you raised the dead made the blind to see. You heal the weak and the troubled. Indeed rubi is heal in jesus name God the creator.

  19. As i said in the morning, some leaders do not have a heart for people, all they want is to satisfy their selfish desires leaving people their own carders beaten and they are scouch free. My brother was one of the UPND strong youth leader but fate caught up with him. Let leaders not use people to have it easy to climb to the top and eventaully forget who put them their as the force of gravity applies in any ones life the same people will be the ladar on their way down. people are un sung heroes as they are never mentioned or appreciated, this is an appeal to any young person who wants to fully engage in politics. politics is laka, psychology, Philosophy, sociology and mathematical. Politicians abuse these principles and start applying them wrongly hence falling into the trap of the imature

  20. One day we are going to wake up and find the whole zambia there is water sheding. These politicians think we are to be taken for granted, why contemplate on the increase of Electricity bills when zambia has the capacity to generate power for the whole southern africa, i agree things are not normal. This is the time when we now look at what Matthew 26:……says in the end people will become liars and lovers of themselves forgeting others that they are also humans. the Bible also talks of the rich becoming more richer(others thats when they are even buring mahafu imwe) abwele che mwine, elo akabakande. Is it more money in our pockets or no money in people’s pockets???????? Yaba, tulechimona kanshi guyz.

  21. Monitoring is best done when you have a couple of data to compare. A lot of blood pressure monitors have huge memory banks storing about 80 or more readings. If you’re going to buy a blood pressure monitor that’s so hard to use then might as well stick with sphygmomanometer and stethoscope.

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