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It happened so fast: What you must know about stroke

Strokes account for 6 per cent of all deaths in Kenya. [iStockphoto]

"It happened so fast," Nancy Karume, a nurse at the Kenyatta National Hospital, narrated her stroke experience.

It was April of 2020, and Nancy was on leave. One morning she leisurely went to the toilet and finished her business. As she reached out to flush the toilet, she couldn't see the knob. "All I saw was darkness," she said.

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