Boy Elephant ashamed of his body (PHOTO)

Ten-year boy elephant in Uganda is fighting for his life. His legs were terribly swollen and the body fights the bacteria eat the flesh.

Little Vincent Oketch can not walk, and had to wear clothes for girls. His feet were swollen so much that he is unable to pick up their trousers to the appropriate size, so you have to be limited to the skirt. But the neighbors have called him a boy-bishop. The child suffers from   necrotizing fasciitis And the bacteria literally eat his flesh.

Doctors in the village of Peta, where Vincent lives, are now crying out for international assistance. They say that the boy would die if he does not receive appropriate treatment, which he can not hope to overcrowding and poor Uganda. And Vincent himself most worries because of peer ridicule.

"He has to wear a pink girly clothes and ridicule sypyatsya from morning till night, - says Father Vincent. - He's so small, and his feet are now weigh more than him. We first noticed the problem when Vincent was a year and a half, but we did not It has the money to take him to the clinic. "

Local doctors have long could not understand what is the cause of a child's illness. Someone spoke of lymphatic problems, due to which swelling occurs, someone has an infection. Doctors believed that the only way to save for your child is an amputation, but some experts are hoping for international assistance.

A recent analysis showed the presence of a child necrotizing fasciitis   - Infectious and inflammatory diseases of soft tissues. If Vincent does not receive treatment, the outcome is fatal.

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