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Coast General Hospital grinds to a halt as staff down tools

Coast General Hospital grinds to a halt as staff down tools
Patients lie in beds unattended at the Coast General Hospital due to the ongoing strike by doctors and nurses. (Photo: Gideon Maundu/Standard)

Mombasa, Kenya: A four-day-old baby boy with a defective rectum is among the 300 patients admitted at the Coast General Hospital with no medical assistance due to a go-slow by health workers at the infirmary.

Nurses at the hospital have been on strike for a week, protesting lack of supplies and non-payment of their July salaries.

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