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Clogged, congested: The pain of an ailing referral healthcare system

A group of doctors doing internal eye surgery on four years old on March 18, 2021, at Kenyatta National Hospital, in Nairobi.[Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

Seven-year-old Fancy Chepkoech was diagnosed with cancer of the kidney at Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital in 2019. She had the affected kidney removed after the discovery of cancer known as nephroblastoma. 

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