TB shows family who the boss is, but they fight on

Kenneth Munene with his sister Fridah Makena. [Saada Hassan, Standard]

One family in Karachi village, Meru County has suffered immensely due to tuberculosis. The sight of a grave ushers you to the homestead, a bitter reminder of how tuberculosis threatened to sweep this family. It all started in 2016 when one contracted TB and transmitted it to the rest.

One of them was Kenneth Munene, 13, and who had been misdiagnosed three times. “I was treated for other diseases that did not exist until my last visit when they discovered I had tuberculosis, for which I was put on medication for about six months... but the disease progressed and the drugs were no longer working. I was put on new drugs.”