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Ministry moots plan to have NHIF cover TB patients

Martha Njoki, her daughter died from a multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). [Willis Awandu, Standard]

A routine power blackout on April 14 triggered a chain of events that would end in the death of Martha Njoki's daughter.

That morning, power tapped from an illegal connection went out and her daughter, Joyce Wangeci, had breathing complications as she relied on an oxygen concentrator machine.

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