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Kenya: patients abandoned to die in wards as nurses' strike bite

Betty Chepchumba, a patient at the Rift Valley provincial General Hospital-Annex was among those left unattended following the ongoing nurses’ strike in Nakuru. PHOTO: MERCY KAHENDA/STANDARD

Patients in public hospitals in Nakuru have been abandoned to die after nurses went on strike over unfair promotions on Wednesday.

The worst affected are patients in wards depending on life support machines and have medical bills. Their relatives have been caught in between a rock and hard surface. They can neither transfer their loved ones to other facilities because hospital administrators have locked them up until they clear the bills yet there is no one to take care of them in the wards.

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