Agaba rose above mental illness to shine at S4
Hillary Agaba from Light Secondary School, Bushenyi scored 13 aggregates after suffering mental illness. PHOTO BY ZADOCK AMANYISA
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He wants to do sciences at Advanced level and become a doctor after studying psychiatry at University.
He went back to school and focused on his studies until 2017 when he sat for his final exams and scored 13 aggregates.
Hillary Agaba, 17, a student of Light Secondary School, Bushenyi district scored 13 aggregates in the recently released 2017 UCE results.
Agaba, whose parents; Mr Alex Byensi and Mrs Agress Kyomugasho are teachers, resides in Kagamba located in Ntungamo district. He suffered a mental illness when he was in senior two in 2015.
Agaba contracted an unknown disease which resulted into a mental illness that disrupted his studies for half a term.
“I fell sick and suffered from a disease I have up to now not yet known and I ran mad. I was taken home for treatment and brought back towards the end of the term,” Agaba narrates.
He went back to school and focused on his studies until 2017 when he sat for his final exams and scored 13 aggregates.
He attributes his success to hard work and his ability to defeat the trauma he suffered during the course of his study.
He wants to do sciences at Advanced level and become a doctor after studying psychiatry at University.
“I want to also shine at S6, become a doctor and be able to work on patients with mental problems,” he says.
