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Ms Lucy Adhiambo displays her medical kit from her home in Langas, Eldoret. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard]
Lucy Adhiambo’s life has been a cocktail of problems, and it keeps getting worse. When we meet at the Kisumu Ndogo slums in Langas, Eldoret, she is lying helpless in a mud-walled room.
Adhiambo, 21, has been battling cancer for two years now and is living without a rectum. Her rectum was removed during a surgical operation as doctors battled to tame a fast spreading tumour.
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