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How accurate are those lab results?

Kenya medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologist board (KMLLTB) Chairman Abel Onyango has raised alarm over increasing number of unqualified personnel hired to run health facilities. [Photo by WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD ]

It has been four years of physical pain and psychological trauma for Lillian Nagisa Saidi after one of her breasts was wrongly removed in one case of horrible misdiagnosis.

The 27-year-old lady had surgery to remove her breast in April 2012 after lab results at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret found she had cancer and needed urgent surgery.

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