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Kenyan resident Belinda Adhiambo had to have her leg amputated when she was three years old after an accident and she still suffers from phantom pains. But in her hometown Kibera, a large impoverished neighbourhood in Nairobi, paying a doctor could mean missing a meal. “Most of these insurance covers do not cover persons with disabilities because of our diversity. We have different needs,” said Adhiambo. Now Adhiambo sells her medical data to an app and in return gets to see a doctor. She gets a credit when she gives her data to the app, which the company behind it calls virtual “Hippocratic c…