15 August 2023 – While pregnant and waiting for the day she could finally hold her new child in her arms, she was faced with the devastating news of her medical diagnosis instead. Louza Saleh, from Sa’adah governorate, was pregnant with her third child when she started to feel extremely sick and lost her ability to walk. She was rushed to the hospital, where she was told the devastating news of her diagnosis of renal failure.
“My sickness started during my pregnancy, I bled a lot and didn’t know what was wrong. I became sicker each day, I lost my ability to walk, work and lead a normal life. That was when I doctors told me that I have a kidney failure and need to start doing dialysis sessions,” said Louza.