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It's agony for poor patients seeking help at Mama Lucy

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The main entrance to Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Mercy Mumbua's tears flow freely as she is wheeled to an emergency wing at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital. She is in pain. Her legs can barely support her body after a motorcycle she had boarded was thrown off balance by a matatu around Donholm.

Her corduroy black trouser is soiled from the accident not long ago. The few nurses at Mama Lucy are walking up and down. One female patient lies on a lonely couch behind a pillar. No one is attending to her.

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