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Community policemen swooped down on a house in Princes Town around midday yesterday to rescue a teenager who is suffering from egg-sized boils on his face, back, legs and hands.
Lying on a thin mattress on the floor of his parents’ house, Noel Lochan,18, said the painful boils have begun to get worse.
His parents — Lionel Lochan, 46, and Cheryl, 36, of Matilda Avenue, Princes Town — said they took him to a doctor last year after water bumps began appearing on his skin.
Lochan said, “I used to work in a chicken shop but when the bumps started coming up I had to leave.”
He said within the space of a week, the bumps began growing to the size of an egg.
He said his right eye closed in as the bumps began covering his cheek and chin, and the boils on his back and abdomen constantly oozed a thick brown liquid.
Lionel said he took his son to a private doctor in Princes Town who advised him to see a skin specialist.
He said, “They told us that it would cost $1,500 for a visit and we never had that money so we brought him home.”
Lochan added, “The doctor say he can’t help...he don’t know what it is.”
The teenager said he has been growing weaker and weaker as the days go by.
“I used to wash clothes and help my mother around the house but now when I stand up for too long I get weak,” he said.
Covering his face with a towel, Lochan whispered: “I wish I can go back to work. My friends do not visit me and I am dying slowly.”
Cheryl said she has to clean her son’s wounds several times for the day.
“I use sweet oil to clean it and peroxide and I give him Paracetamol for the pain. That is all we can afford.”






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