Jamaican Dancehall artist Adjija Palmer popularly known as Vybes Kartel is fighting a life-threatening disease from his prison cell in Kingstone, Jamaica.
Buchanan claimed that he visited the King of Dancehall on Monday (May 29) and had learned that he was being locked up for 23 hours per day due to an alleged cellphone infringement and was not in the best of health.
Mr. Palmer’s condition is life-threatening,” said Buchanan.
“His face is actually swollen,” he said.
A sworn medical statement from endocrinologist Karen Phillips, Vybz Kartel’s private physician, has said that the dancehall artist has been battling Graves’ illness for seven years and that treatment has not resulted in remission.
The 47-year-old deejay has two heart conditions that are getting worse, and that, without surgery, “he could die.”
“Fighting for his life? Yes. It can be dangerous..we do not want to get a phone call to say because he was under this 24 this 23-hour lockdown and unable to breathe, that he succumbed to his illness,” Buchanan warned.
Thyroid hormones affect many body systems, so signs and symptoms of Graves’ disease can be wide-ranging. Although Graves’ disease may affect anyone, it’s more common among women and in people younger than age 40.
Medical sites state that receiving therapy and altering your lifestyle will greatly enhance your prognosis and quality of life. Consuming foods high in iodine, such kelp, dulse, or other varieties of seaweed, may cause or exacerbate hyperthyroidism.
Kartel has had a number of health scares during his over a decade of incarceration in prison.
He reported having excruciating chest pain in 2013. He was treated at the Kingston Public Hospital while being restrained and escorted by highly armed police officers, after which he was returned to detention at the Horizon Remand Center.
He was sent to the University Hospital of the West Indies in July 2015 because of significant skin inflammation. As a result of the large number of fans that descended upon the hospital to see him, his visit raised serious security concerns.
And when he was receiving treatment for a kidney-related problem two years later at the same clinic, a like circumstance occurred.
He was later admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies in March 2019 for thyroid-related issues.
In 2014, Kartel, Shawn ‘Shawn Storm’ Campbell, Kahira Jones, and Andre “Mad Suss” Saint John were all given mandatory life terms for the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams in 2011. According to the prosecution, the crime was committed at the home of the Worl’ Boss in Havendale, St. Andrew.
Although Lizard’s body was never discovered, the prosecution used text conversations discovered on Kartel’s phone as evidence that the body had been sliced up “fine fine” and dumped.
