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Juliet Mutuku who is on Palliative Care yesterday during an interview at her home in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi. [David Njaaga, Standard]
Inside a room marked nine, a fading figure inscribed on the door of a tiny single-roomed house in Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum, is a woman facing the hardest decision of her life. She is battling cervical cancer and has no close family to take care of her. The disease is spreading fast and she can barely afford the Sh1,000 morphine needed to contain her pain.
Juliet Mutuku recounts many nights when the pain got so intense that she could barely move. A specific night haunts her. It happened a few weeks ago. She was bathed in sweat, shivering and crying for help.
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