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A nail cost me my leg, now I can walk again

Alice Gitau shows her artificial leg fitted at Cure Kenya in Kijabe Prosthetics workshop. The centre makes limbs for accident victims and children bone with deformities. [George Njunge, Standard]

When Alice Gitau, 32, stepped on a rusty nail in Nairobi more than 10 years ago, she did not give it much thought and delayed to go for a tetanus jab.

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