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WHO estimates that over 300,000 children are born with sickle cell disease each year, with 14,000 of them in Kenya. [Courtesy]
When Michelle Omulo, a 32-year-old filmmaker and disability inclusion advocate, walked into Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital’s (JOOTRH) Victoria Annex Hospital in Kisumu, she carried both fear and hope.
Diagnosed with sickle cell anemia at the age of three, Michelle has endured countless painful crises, two mild strokes, and years of uncertainty about her future.
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