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NHIF urged to consider covering a palliative care burdening ill, kin

Members of the public walk past the National Hospital Insurance Fund building headquarters in Upper Hill, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Dominic Mwangi supports himself with a rope to wake up from his bed after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer three years ago. Mr Mwangi, 69, from Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County depends on his 76-year-old elder sister for care.

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