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Doctors at the Kakamega County Referral Hospital attend to children admitted at Ward 5 suffering from malaria. [PHOTO: BENJAMIN SAKWA/STANDARD]
There seems to be a malaria outbreak in the county with, so far, seven under 10-year-old children having died of the same at Kakamega County Referral Hospital on Sunday with 100 others admitted.
The hospital has also been hit by a blood shortage at its bank and this has caused some of the admitted children to become anemic.
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