 My name is Samson Gola Mwanza. I'm a citizen in Malawi. I want to share my experience with Manipo Hospital, especially the treatment that I got. I had spain compression, which was not detected or diagnosed for a couple of years, two to three years back home. I still was feeling pain but maybe because of the technical aspects it couldn't be diagnosed until the time the compression was really heavy to the point that it landed me paralyzed. This paralysis made me to be in a wheelchair for about eight months. And during these months I couldn't do everything that I would normally do as a man, as a father and as an employee to my employer. It was even worse because it was during the year of COVID in 2020. This is the point when I had to look for medical treatment elsewhere, especially outside of my country, Malawi. And I got to know about Manipo Hospital through a colleague at WEC who had also come to the same hospital for a brain tumor surgery. So when I contacted him and when he knew about my situation immediately he gave me the contacts for Manipo Hospital. I got in touch with Manipo Hospital and I got all the necessary support to get me half the agency of the situation, especially the treatment. We settled for the treatment to be done in Manipo Hospital Bangalow where the specialist for spine really was in touch with me giving the agency that is required for my surgery to be done based on my situation. I delayed to come in because of the COVID as I said, flights were not allowed into the country. I had to wait for another four months before I could fly to India. Finally when ways were opened I flew to India and the same day I arrived the doctor welcomed me, gave me all the support and immediately ordered for the tests to be done. The same day and the same day he ordered for my admission. Mr. Samson Mwanza reported to us I think couple of years back with history of progressive paralysis and complete paralysis of one year duration. On evaluation we found that he was suffering from pathological fracture at T3 vertebra. We did all the blood work up and cardiac and other safety measures and giving him a chance of surgery saying that there was less than one percent of chance of recovery from the paralysis because of delay in treatment. He had already spent one year being paralytic, paraplegic and there was a very less chance for him to become fully alright. But having said we did convince him that even that one percent can become 100 percent provided he takes that chance and invests on himself and he agreed. And we did perform a surgery to decompress and fuse the upper thoracic spine and patient the biopsies from the tissue which was causing the fracture of the bone T3 was found to be having plasma cells and he was diagnosed to be suffering from plasma cytoma. He was then referred to radiotherapy and chemotherapy and Dr. Wadiraj and Dr. Amitarrothan treated him successfully and he went back from here slowly but steadily recovering some part of neurology. And today when he came I was surprised to see that he is able to walk with just a walking stick and even unsupported at times for short distances. He has got control over his urine and motion which he had none before surgery. He was referred for radiotherapy and as usual for like any other patient we had started radiation treatment to that level and we had planned a palliative treatment of 30 degrees in 10 fractions. After couple of radiations around 4 to 5 radiations he had a drastic improvement in his power in the lower limbs. So possibly this is because the myeloma is very sensitive to radiation and once we started the radiation the soft tissue component around that D3D4 level started shrinking and he had a drastic improvement in his power in the lower limbs. And by the time he completed his radiation treatment he was almost back to his feet and he was walking. A person who was almost bedridden and he came to the hospital after decompression and radiation treatment. Since myeloma is very sensitive to radiation treatment he responded well and he started walking back. Post completion of radiation treatment he was seen by medical oncologist Dr. Amitarrothan and he was started on myeloma specific treatment which he completed in mid 2021 and after that he went back home and then he did his exercise and he was walking with a walking stick. And now he has come for follow-up his myeloma is in remission and he is good and there is no compression and he is walking. The hospital took due diligence to make sure that I was really treated of anything that was associated with my spine compression. I got all the support from the hospital, from the staff, from the doctors and I was referred to probably about four doctors to check on my health situation. That was so much impressive such that you wouldn't really expect that one doctor would leave for you to the other. The other person would also leave for you to the other to make sure that everything about you is correct, is treated, is no more. That was so very much impressive. Every year if a person, if a general public, they undergo tests, the master health checkup, some blood tests, ultrasound, all these kinds of tests if they undergo many of these complex problems can be avoided. Here I am thanks to Manipo Hospital and Manipo Hospital really helps and Manipo Hospital really provides what is required to be provided for the support of people's lives. Thank you.