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When 10-year-old Duncan woke up with itchiness and acute pain in his right eye in June last year, his grandmother, Rose Auma, crushed some herbs and put the mixture in his eye, hoping the symptoms would go away.
Instead, the eye bulged and the boy lost his vision in that eye.
A worried Auma, from Ndhiwa village in Homa Bay County, took Duncan to Homa Bay hospital for tests, and later a private facility where he was diagnosed with retinoblastoma (cancer of the eye), at Stage 3.
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