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When power of science triumphed over witchdoctors

A field doctor treating small pox patient in Kenya December 1985. [File, Standard]

Eighty-nine years ago, medics were not roaming around Afya House in search of tenders or medical supplies they could spirit away to clinics for a profit. They trekked around the villages sometimes riding donkeys and bicycles nudging the rural folk to go to hospitals when sick instead of rushing to soothsayers.

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