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Plea for pregnant frontline workers as nurse is buried

Marian Awuor Adumbo, a nurse who died of Covid-19 a few days after giving birth.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has called on counties to ensure that expectant health workers are kept off the frontline in the handling of Covid-19 patients. 

Kagwe, who addressed the nation on the status of Covid-19 in Kenya from the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital yesterday, was responding to a request made by Kisii Senator Sam Ongeri that expectant health workers should not be exposed to high risks conditions.

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