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When religious fanatics die from treatable ailments

By Njoroge Kinuthia

Some things border on the bizarre, and this is one of them. A woman takes her 27-year-old anaemic daughter to hospital in Kerugoya. The doctor advises that the patient be given blood transfusion, but the mother, a devout Christian, objects saying that their faith does not permit transfusion.

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