After nearly 8 years away from reporting in worry health and disability stories, journalist and nodding syndrome advocate Pat Robert Larubi, alias Pat Larry King, has returned to the field to assess and bring out the silent voices of children and families inflicted and affected by Nodding syndrome disease.
The celebrated TV show host told families in Angagura, Pader District, that he was arrested several times by security operatives in Odek, Lalogi and Angagura for his hard hitting real life stories on the plight of children and families battling nodding syndrome.
This he said after parents expressed their wounds, suffering and faint they have are are still enduring looking after their sick children rifle by stigma, sexual abuse, exploitation and hopelessness.
“I have made come back to come hear about nodding syndrome again,” Pat Larry said.
“I’m among the first people who started reporting on nodding syndrome when they used to ferry suffering children from Northern Uganda to Kampala. I witnessed first hand what their suffering means to me as someone from this side of the country. After almost 15 years hope has dwindled, people have moved on and the only thing the parents wish for their children I'd death so they can rest from the burden of car. What a scary wittld? " Pat Lamented
If I still hear you talk about the stigma, I feel like crying.”
He pleaded with donors to stand with parents of children affected by nodding syndrome: “I’m speaking hard because I have seen the pain of these parents. These are parents who lost hope. They don’t think about tomorrow. If you don’t give them hope, then our coming here is as useless as not coming back again.”
