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Kenya loses first doctor to COVID-19 at only 39

Dr Doreen Adisa Lugaliki (Courtesy)

In utter disbelief, Dr Doreen Adisa Lugaliki gasped for breath as fellow doctors prepared to insert tubes into her trachea to save her fast slipping life on Wednesday evening.

“I am being intubated?” the 39-year-old doctor asked, amid spasms, when she saw all that was going around her.

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