Bagamoyo News: A CHANGE AFTER SURGERY

The young man Saidi Ngwaje who could not see eye-to-eye because of his awkward facial appearance, is now a different man after facial surgeries.

Although he was born a normal person until he grew up, got married and had two children. As days went by he noticed something like noodles growing on his left side of his forehead. It went on growing as days passed by and then it came to be massive which over flapped and reached his chest. He could not help walk upright due to the weight of the fleshy mass, he tilted his head on one side.

Due to his cumbersome appearance and the difficulty he faced in his daily life, he could not manage to maintain his married life. In his words, he divorced his wife. He stayed under one roof with his brother at Zinga, on the Bagamoyo Road a few kilometers before Bagamoyo town.

For his appointment at the CCBRT hospital in Dar es Salaam, he managed to collect some financial backing from Good Samaritans and at religious institutions such as Islamic Mosques. In Bagamoyo after Friday prayers at Masjid Rehman, sympathisers assisted him with cash TShs. 40,000/= for his medical expenses.

The pictures of Saidi Ngwaje were taken before and after surgery. In a short interview he said he was willing to manage a small retail shop if he was to be sponsored.

It appears that Saidi Ngwaje suffered from a disease known as Neurofibromatosis (NF 1) which is said to be caused by a genetic disorder. It disturbs the cell growth in the nervous system. The tumor are usually non-cancerous (benign) but in some cases these tumors become cancerous (malignant) tumors.