Uganda, March 4 -- A 35-year-old woman in Bugweri District has spent 15 years bedridden, battling a mysterious disease.

Amat Naigaga, who can only speak, but can neither walk nor sit upright on her bed or feed herself, says her sickness started in 2005 when she was in Primary Five.

"It started with a "joint pain in my right hand", which later got paralysed in 2007, followed by my right leg, which also got paralysed in 2009, rendering me unable to walk, even with support," she said at the weekend.

Naigaga, who was with her 75-year-old grandmother Jessica Nakalende added that around June 2009, she was taken to Nsinze health centre IV in Namutumba District for medical examination, but doctors referred her to Mulago national referral hospi...