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Tale of the forgotten cerebral palsy patients in Meru hospital

Subordinate staff at the Meru teaching and referral hospital clean male trauma ward

 The Meru Teaching and Referral Hospital has been unable to send away three patients who have no known home address.

The ongoing doctors’ strike has reduced the usually busy facility to one where empty beds welcome one into the wards. But at ward one, it is a slightly different story, thanks to three children who were abandoned in different parts of Meru after suffering cerebral palsy.

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