Nigeria to receive leprosy drugs after a year-long delay

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00:00You

01:00Can't miss it. We can't miss it. Why I'm a big mama. I didn't matter. I leave home. I'm nothing. I like being y'all ball

01:07Back. Oh, thank you. I'm okay. Mama. Nelly

01:30You

01:43You know the relax will come when you study drugs in most cases now that I have not even started a drugs

01:49The most important thing is we don't even want them to run into complication

01:54So complication is the most difficult aspect, you know, if they lost their finger

01:59Where are you going to get the finger and give them again?

02:03If they lost their sight who is going to give them sight

02:08So what we are afraid is even the complication as they are staying without a drug the disease is progressing

02:16day by day

02:29You

02:39In the last

02:42It's about a year now

02:44We don't have nepotism in the country. And this is the first time we are seeing this kind of very strange very painful

02:53situation

02:55Where the participants who you know, really like I just said they belong to the poorest of the poor

03:02I'm not able to access this life-saving medication

03:05for the first time

03:07These drugs are meant to be free

03:09They're meant to be brought in by WHO and yet here we are one year plus later not having those drugs