Family worried as Chameleone’s elder brother battles cancer

Humphrey Mayanja, the elder brother of singer Jose Chameleone is undergoing cancer treatment at the Mulago-based Uganda Cancer Institute.

Humphrey was recently brought back from the United States to get treatment surrounded by family and friends.

Condition worrying

Read: Chameleone’s brother Humphrey Mayanja also hospitalized in the U.S.

Mzee Mayanja described his condition as very worrying.

“He is not doing well; we are all concerned and praying to God to revive his life.”

Mayanja was speaking at the 9th memorial of the death of his other son, Emmanuel Mayanja AK 47, who died in 2015 at the young age of 24.

Gerald M said they had to push forward this commemoration from the 16th to 17th March because they were busy tending to Humphrey.

“We haven't had time to sit down because our son is fighting for his life,” he said.

Visitors not allowed

Humphrey is currently not accessible to visitors at the cancer institute owing to the critical stage of his ongoing treatment.

His father said doctors are concerned that visitors might bring him other infections as he is undergoing multiple surgeries.

“Maybe we’ll find some other time and take you (reporters) there in the future," he said.

Humphrey has been undergoing treatment in the US since May last year.

Around that time he was rushed for an emergency operation following a stomach complication.

His treatment, he said, involved inserting a nasogastric tube inside his stomach to get rid of the infections inside, but the doctors ended up carrying out a full surgery.