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Community health staff to be given portable testing kits

Kiambu,Kenya: Community health workers in Kiambu County will soon be provided with portable disease testing kits to enable them diagnose common ailments at the village level.

County Executive Committee Memeber for Health Jonah Mwangi said the project is a collaboration between the county government and Fio Corporation, a non-governmental organisation that supplies the kits known as Deki Reader. 

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