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Malaria patients double as drugs shortage bites

An elderly woman gets tested for Malaria at FIMRC Health Center III in Bududa district, eastern Uganda, on April 7, 2017. [AFP]

Heavy rains and the rising water levels in Lake Victoria have seen a surge in Malaria cases in Kisumu, amid concerns that local public hospitals have run out of anti-malarial drugs.

The most affected are families living in deplorable conditions inside several evacuation camps scattered across the county, where they are being sheltered.

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