| Lack of mobility |
Adults and infants |
‘And you may see a person looking very weak maybe he is laying down butno power/strength to get up, and he cannot walk on his own.’ |
FGD Male Youth, Peri-urban ward |
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‘But that day, he could not stand up when he tried to, he could not sit down.So I knew that that day, he was seriously ill’. |
Female widow of husband with probable meningitis |
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‘So when he reached a point where he became very sick, he failed to sit down,he failed to stand up. It’s when he (neighbour) suggested “this person shouldnot stay here”. Yes, I can say the severity of the illness was what made us go’. |
Female widow of husband who died of proven meningitis |
| Inability to work |
Adult men |
‘So from there he was still working but it reached a point that he couldn’twork like his strength was reducing … so when he started being weak likethat it was when he changed from there it was when he was picked up by otherpeople who work at Queens’ |
Father of young man who died of proven meningitis |
| Inability to performusual domestic role |
Adult women |
‘What concerned me was that the woman is sick, but also what the woman
was supposed to do at home. I was going to miss it all, I should rush to thehospital that this problem should not grow’ |
Husband of woman who survived proven meningitis |
| Refusal to eat |
Adults and infants |
‘: What worried you about this disease? R: Because she didn’t eat anything,she refused’ |
Mother of infant survivor of proven meningitis |
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‘She was not receiving the food that it is why we noticed that she was seriouslyill, let’s take her to the hospital’ |
Husband of female survivor of proven meningitis |
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‘I: Did you ever think that the child was seriously ill? R: Yes I: How? R: Sometimeshe would refuse to suck milk from the breast, just crying’ |
Mother of infant survivor of proven meningitis |
