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State steps up fight as pneumonia kills thousands of children annually

Tessie Musalia, wife of Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi use Pneumonia Charm kit to test , for Pneumonia at Brookfield School, Karatina, Nyeri county during the lighting of Christmas tree for children living with disability on December 19, 2022. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

Around the world, a child dies from pneumonia every 43 seconds, claiming just over 2,000 young lives each day. 

At a media breakfast in Nairobi on Thursday, Dr Stephen Muleshe, the Director of Public Health at the Ministry of Health (MoH), emphasized the silent crisis pneumonia is creating for families.

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