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Mombasa starts home based care in corona fight

Covid-19 Emergency Response Fund Board Member Dr James Mwangi hands over personal protective equipment and face masks to Mombasa County Health chief Dr Hadijah Shikely (left) at Coast General Referral Hospital in Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

When he tested positive for Covid-19 a couple of weeks ago, Hussein Abdullah (not his real name) was worried about stigmatisation in Mombasa.

He also feared being taken to a quarantine facility with his family and preferred to self-isolate at home. Luckily for him, Mombasa had started rolling out home based care for asymptomatic patients, which he readily opted for.

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