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Botched jab: ‘We were left with scars that will never heal’

Mathew Edejae examines her daughter Veline Ambita's leg at Kakapel village in Busia County. Veline is among the 28 victims of a botched malaria jab at Akichelesit dispensary in Busia County. [MUMO MUNUVE, Standard]

Cate Ateng’e, 13, sits pensively on bare ground facing the direction of the grave outside their ramshackle house at Osajai village in Teso North Constituency, Busia County.

Together with her four siblings, they are having lunch – ugali with omena (fingerlings fish) stew, but you can easily tell from their looks that they are malnourished.

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