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Three-month-old baby loses arm, foot after ‘botched’ vaccination

Three-month-old baby Austin Njoroge lost his foot and arm after doctors had to amputate them due to a BCG vaccination that went wrong.

His parents, Peter Gitonga and his wife Leah Waithira, say the incident is because of negligence at Kihara Hospital in Kiambu.

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