Cirrhosis is the scarring (fibrosis) of the liver resulting from prolonged liver damage. This scar tissue disrupts the liver’s ability to function properly. Often referred to as end-stage liver disease, cirrhosis occurs after other stages of liver damage caused by conditions like hepatitis.

We are losing people; we buried a 19-year-old yesterday; today we are burying two people, and the cause is the liver. The liver got rotten; the liver got cirrhosis. So as I talk now, in two days, we are burying three people with similar complications,”

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