Lab staff: My baby asks why I no longer go home

Moses Ondieki, a lab technician at Lancet Kenya. So far, together with his team they have done more than 2,000 Covid-19 tests. [Beldeen Waliaula, Standard]

Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Moses Ondieki, a medic, never imagined that so much would be required of him as a professional and family man.

The laboratory technician at Pathologists’ Lancet Kenya, in charge of testing for Covid-19 samples, has had to make painful but critical sacrifices for the safety of his family and for the good of Kenyans.