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A severe anemic child whose parents have reached a dead end

Eunice Wanjiku from Baraniki, Kikuyu constituency condition has forced her financially challenged parents to reach a dead end after using all the money they had on her medication with no success.
Since December last year, the girl has been at home receiving no medication.



According to her mother in 2013, Eunice was a healthy growing girl attending school like any other child. She further said that one day she developed a pimple-like swelling on her left leg which to her was not a very big issue.

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