Widow stricken with filariasis needs a home

Bibi Ahbeda Alli tearfully recounts her story from her hospital bed at the GPH.

“I want to go home, but I have no home, nowhere to go,” a tearful Bibi Ahbeda Alli said from her bed at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), where she has been for four months.

Bibi has been suffering from filaria since 1997, and as a result has been immobile for four years now. In early December last year, Bibi said, her filaria started acting up, so she called the hospital for an ambulance and was told to hold on until 2.30 pm,