Doris Benjamin, who has sickle cell and is an advocate, has talked about how her family didn't take her pain or that of her three other siblings seriously.
She says that this is what killed her older sister Elle, who their mother's family thought was a witch because she was always in trouble.
"Years ago, people didn't really know about the disease, so my mother's relatives, where we were staying, didn't take it seriously and thought my sister was a witch when she was in pain," she told Afia Amankwa Tamakloe on Adom TV's M'ashyase3.
Doris said that when Elle was in trouble, their relatives locked her up in an unfinished building in Anomabo and forced her to confess before they could help.
"There are four of us kids, and we all have sickle cell disease. Our mother was working in Nigeria, so we didn't get much help. My older sister begged them not to believe she was a witch, but no one paid attention.
"She was locked up for two days without food or water, and she died during that time. If the room didn't smell so bad, they wouldn't have gone to check on her at all. We were very helpless when we were kids," she said with sadness.
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Doris said that she and her two younger siblings were told to go and dig a grave for the funeral, even though they were sad. Their mother was not even told.
"It was a Sunday, and it was one of the hardest days of our lives. After a year, my mom came home for Easter and was taken to the grave.
"She was very upset and broke because she couldn't understand why her own family would do something like that to her, so they moved us to Nigeria to live with her," the woman said.
Source: Adomonline