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Rosemary suffered a stroke and brain tumour in 2019 which damaged her optic nerves leading to loss of vision. 

ODM leader Raila Odinga's daughter, Rosemary Odinga has spoken after undergoing a three-week successful treatment in India.  

Rosemary suffered a stroke and brain tumour in 2019 which damaged her optic nerves leading to loss of vision. 

However, following the specialised treatment in India's Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Eyecare Hospital, she has fully regained her eyesight. 

"Before coming to India for treatment, I was pretty much living in darkness. I was simply existing. I was not living. I had a tumour in the brain I had an aneurysm so one of the aneurysms was leaking and then that caused a stroke

"My father heard through a friend of his that there is a treatment that we could try in India called eye weather," Rosemary said in an interview with an Indian TV station. 

{ODM leader Raila Odinga's daughter Rosemary Odinga PHOTO/COURTESY}

Rosemary underwent treatment at Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Eye Hospital and Research Centre in Koothattukulam, which is 46km from Kochi, a city in southwest India's coastal Kerala state. 

She underwent Ayurveda, a traditional Indian system of medicine that aims to preserve health and wellness by keeping the mind, body, and spirit in balance and preventing disease rather than treating it. 

According to the website, Sreedhareeyam eye treatment centre has been practising ayurvedic eye care traditionally for nearly 300 years now.