Uganda, March 25 -- You have probably heard grief-stricken people describe the pain they feel as close to being killed. It is uncanny how true their description is. In July 2021, when her father succumbed to a Covid-19 related heart attack, Pearl Baine was certain she would not survive the intensity of the devastation of her loss. Baine says her father James Sallies Lwanga was her everything and she could not think of a life without him

"I was unable to eat or sleep for days and in 10 days, I lost seven kilogrammes," she recounts.

What Baine was going through is medically known as broken heart syndrome. According to www.mayoclinic.org, people with broken heart syndrome may have sudden chest pain or think they are having a heart attack....