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For most poor cancer patients, help comes late

Getrude Lusia tends to her son, Granious Waweru, 6, at Texas Cancer Centre, Nairobi. Waweru died of Leukemia in 2016. [David Njaaga, Standard]

As the world marked cancer awareness this week, Getrude Lusia from Kawangware, Nairobi, was lost in thought.

She was reminded of the many nights she stayed awake in her single roomed house, watching her son’s heartbeat, and praying he makes it.

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