GhPageNewsGhanaian Nurse And Model With 'Rare' Skin Condition Fights Against Discrimination(Photos)

Ghanaian Nurse And Model With ‘Rare’ Skin Condition Fights Against Discrimination(Photos)

People might look at you differently when you have a different face skin and color. At a point in time, people will be driving away from you when they come near you.

Even though Enam Heikeens Honya suffers from a rare skin condition, she has not allowed her condition to keep her silence. Vitiligo is a widely known skin condition which she has taken it upon her self to become an ambassador.

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In a special report made by Pulse.com representative Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, it is reported that Enam who is a nurse in Ho in the Volta Region is a vitiligo ambassador in Ghana.

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The 24-year old health worker who doubles as a model has taken it upon herself to use her condition to break the discrimination that comes with the condition.

In explaining her story, while growing up, Enam indicated that when the pigmentation of her skin started changing, she was taken to the hospital where doctors indicated that she was fine even though the condition was spreading.

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Many of her friends did not want to play with her or even sit by her in class; she revealed, a situation she considered very traumatizing even though it was no fault of hers.

She recounted also that she was so depressed that she tried taking her own life a number of times because of the stigma.

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She said even at work, there were a few challenges she faced with colleagues and even patients due to her condition. She said there was an instance where a patient wanted another nurse to attend to her because of her skin condition.

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as found her way into the health industry because she wanted to learn more about her condition when she was in High School.

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Enam added the funniest part by saying that some children who visited the hospital ended up crying when they saw her for the first time but later become comfortable enough to want to play with her skin.

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