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Empty blood banks: Hospital, patients resort to black market and donors

Mombasa residents donate blood followingthe Dusit terror attack. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Systems put in place 21 years ago to assure Kenyans of safe and sufficient blood have failed, with the country now facing life-threatening shortages.

Shocked by the 1998 terror attack at the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya established a national service to manage the availability and safety of blood.

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