Relatives, friends and NHIF saved girl with deadly blood cancer

Cancer survivor, Winfred Wacuka, 13, (in red) is sandwiched by her father Julius Ndirangu and her mother Helen Gathoni. [Courtesy]

After two months of hospital visits for his daughter’s persistent fever, Julius Ndirangu sought services at a ‘better’ hospital.

‘Better’ because the village clinic in Kameo, Embu County, where Winfred Wacuka, the nine-year-old, was being seen had been prescribing antibiotics that did not seem to be working.