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Rahab Keranga, a polio survivor. [Rose Mukonyo, Standard]

Rahab Keranga, a 52-year-old woman in Kiambu County walked at the age of 7 months. It was such a joy to her mother to see her young daughter running and playing with her elder siblings.

Several months later, when Rahab hit one and a half years, she began getting paralysed, and could no longer walk, or even play with her friends and siblings. She was diagnosed with polio.

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