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Don't cut child's 'small tongue'

A caring mother checks the temperature of his coughing child. [Getty Images]

Kennedy Lukanda from Kipsombe in Uasin Gishu County, had a daughter who suffered frequent coughing and no medication in hospital cured the condition leading to frequent absentia from school over persistent cough and high fever.

But when traditional herbalist recommended cutting her uvula (small tongue), the persistent coughs stopped.

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