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Sickle Cell: Your blood is sick

The sickle cell foundation clinic at Mikindani in Mombasa County on Tuesday 19th January 2016. Photo/Kelvin Karani

The Sickle Cell Medical Centre in Mikindani, Mombasa, is a clinic that receives sickle cell patients from the region’s six counties.

Set up by the Sickle Cell Foundation of Kenya, the centre is currently taking care of more than 100 patients with its founder and director, Noah Nalwanda saying 70 per cent of these are children.

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