Hydrocephalus patients, families lament public ridicule


By AGENCY

Hydrocephalus patients have excess liquid inside the brain which causes the head to swell beyond normal. Photo: 123rf.com

Big head, weird head, head like a mushroom: These are among the distasteful and insensitive remarks often hurled at Hydrocephalus patients, namely, those with excess liquid inside the brain which causes the head to swell beyond normal.

Several parents of these special children have said that acquaintances and even some of their own relatives had uttered words to insinuate that what occurred to their loved ones was the result of their own transgressions.

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