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Wajir medics: She suffered 50 per cent burns and needed urgent medical assistance at KNH

Yussuf Adan, father to Haretha Yussuf, 16, hospitalised at Al-Amin Hospital in Eastleigh, after she suffered burns on her body [David Njaaga,Standard]

A 16-year-old girl with an estimated 50 degree burns was turned away at Kenyatta National Hospital after a 14-hour journey from Wajir to Nairobi.

Haretha Yusuf could not be admitted in KNH because Wajir Referral Hospital had not contacted the country’s biggest referral hospital according to procedure.

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