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Lack of medical oxygen leaves patients gasping

A man offloads a Medical Oxygen Cylinder at Nakuru Nursing home in Nakuru town on October 30, 2020. [Kipsang Joseph,Standard]

Simon Kirathe knows just how difficult it is to breathe life into someone. Literally. Kirathe narrates how a relative was suddenly taken ill and developed general body weakness and shortness of breath on October 23.

He rushed his ailing kin to a medical centre in Nyahururu town from their Busara village in Nyandarua County. He was examined and treated.

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