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Absence of power 'bad for jab drive'

Absence of power 'bad for jab drive'

The county government has resorted to use solar powered refrigerators to store vaccines in health facilities that lack electricity connection.

There are 195,454 children under the age of five years in the county, and of the 285 health facilities, up to 46 cannot offer immunisation services daily because of lack of power to enable preservation of the vaccines in refrigerators.

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