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Open heart surgeries rescue children with heart defects

Doctors at Tenwek Mission Hospital conduct a surgery on one of the patients during a open heart surgery which saw 12 children benefit. [Gilbert Kimutai, Standard]

At Mater Hospital in Nairobi, 23-year-old Lucyline Kinya from Isiolo has been here for days, waiting for her daughter to undergo a heart surgery.

It all began when her daughter, who was six months old, started having chest problems and was diagnosed with pneumonia.

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