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The white elephants dotting Turkana’s vast landscape

The stalled Napopogoit dispensary in Turkana County. It is among 27 stalled health projects in the County. [Bakari Ang'ela]

Every time Wilfred Lokeum feels unwell, he has to trek about 18km in the scorching Turkana heat in search of medical services.

He has no choice, as a dispensary whose construction started five years ago, close to his home, has never been completed.

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