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Tenwek heart survivor joins hospital team after life-saving surgeries

The four-story AGC Tenwek Cardiothoracic Centre, sprawling across 3.5 acres and 400,000 square feet [File/Standard]

At just nine years old, Maureen Cherotich was diagnosed in 2009 with rheumatic heart disease - a chronic condition caused by damage to heart valves from rheumatic fever.

After two open-heart surgeries, one in 2009 and the second in 2017 at the age of 16, Cherotich was out of danger.

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