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Free surgeries join up the broken back to daily lives

A team of orthopaedic surgeons and nurses operate on a patient at Nanyuki Hospital. [Jacinta Mutura, Standard]

For four months Lesili Kurukai has been confined on a hospital bed, enduring endless pain after he fell and broke his hip bone.

The 56-year-old had to abandon his tailoring job. After the December 28 accident in Doldol, Laikipia North, Kurukai was booked at a nearby health centre where he got several jabs and pain killers and went back home.

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