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Byline: Christine Katende
It is by God's grace that 26-year-old Catherine Nakato is still alive. She is in pain because she cannot afford either the treatment or replacement of her failed kidneys. And if she does not get any of them in time, she could lose her life.
Nakato's problem started when she was diagnosed with diabetes aged seven.
"The doctors at Nagalama Hospital first detected diabetes when I was young but the good thing is that they treated it and I got better. Unfortunately I suffered from the same disease again when I was 19 years. This was after the several tests doctors took. I was advised to get drugs that were prescribed by the doctors to …