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Family prays kin who disappeared from hospital is still alive

An old photo of Samuel Ngavi. His wife has had hard time explaining to her younger children who are nine- and 12-years-old where their father went to. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

Samuel Ngavi developed what was believed to be cerebral malaria between 2009 and 2010.

It was all well with the peasant farmer and father of four from Khuvasali, Kakamega County, until he developed the “strange” ailment that made Ngavi, born in 1974, turn wild.

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