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Kenya receives 9.3 million doses of critical vaccines

Cabinet Secretary for health Debra Mulongo Barasa and Director General for Health Dr. Patrick Amoth addressing the media on scarcity of vaccines at Afya House,Nairobi. [ Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Kenyan parents can breathe easy after the country received 9.3 million doses of critical childhood vaccines to address shortages in the country.

The shipment includes 2.3 million doses of the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis and 7 million doses of the measles-rubella vaccine.

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