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Agony of TB patients as shortage of drugs bites

TB drugs are very costly. [iStockphoto]

The shortage of tuberculosis drugs in Kisumu hospitals has put lives of patients at risk.

The Standard has established that the situation has forced some patients who are unable to purchase the expensive drugs sold by private chemists to travel to other countries in search of the medicine.

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