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Daughter: We carried tea and bread for my mom after scan, but she never made it

Lavender Allivister had packed bread so that her mother would find something to eat after the MRI scan.

When Caroline Mwenesi, a nurse at Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu, asked her daughter Lavender Allivister to accompany her to the hospital for a check-up, she was stunned. How could her mother, who was in good health, go for a medical check-up?

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