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Shortage of 'legs' dims hope for amputees

Prosthetics Technician Martin Muriithi fitting Kelvin Kengwe with an artificial leg at Alfa Centre, Ngong. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

As schools reopened on Monday, Kelvin Kengwe lay helplessly in bed waiting for "a leg".

For seven months, the 14-year-old has been hoping for good news that a fitting for his amputated leg had been found and he would finally go back to school.

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