Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

At the time, Dr Christo­pher Lush­ing­ton, di­rec­tor of Caribbean Basin Area ac­tiv­i­ties of Mis­sions In­ter­na­tion­al and a mem­ber of Op­er­a­tion Rain­bow, said doc­tors could not de­ter­mine what the prob­lem was. "We have got all his records from the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and we have sent it abroad for a his­tol­ogy (study of the tis­sue)," he said. "There is on­ly one case I have ever seen like this and that was in Nige­ria many years ago...We are still per­plexed as to what this is." Ini­tial­ly, blood analy­sis and tis­sue biop­sies were in­con­clu­sive and fur­ther tests us­ing more ad­vanced med­ical equip­ment were done. Lochan was lat­er giv­en an­tibi­otics and even un­der­went a blood trans­fu­sion. He said doc­tors at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal gave him med­ica­tion which re­duced the size of the boils. He added that some of the tablets were cost­ly and he was of­ten un­able to af­ford the med­ica­tion. Any­one will­ing to as­sist Lochan can con­tact him at 779-0496