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Learning resumes at Mukumu Girls after two months over disease outbreak

Sacred Heart Mukumu Girls principal Sister Jane Mmbone (right) with Western regional commissioner Irungu Macharia (centre) addressing the media at the school on May 23, 2023. [Nathan Ochunge, Standard]

The government has restored normalcy at the Sacred Heart Mukumu Girls High School after two months of uncertainty following a disease outbreak that killed three students and a teacher.

Education Cabinet Secretaries Ezekiel Machogu and his Health counterpart Susan Nakhumicha closed down the school after at least 500 students fell ill.

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