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Dialogue only way to ease human suffering as medics strike

Doctors demonstrate in the streets of Nairobi in December 5, 2016. [PHOTO: ELVIS OGINA]

Kenyans have lost count of the days medical personnel have been on strike this year. Nonetheless, the strikes have been devastating on the poor in society. There is no quality medical care to speak of in public hospitals following the advent of devolution when medical services were devolved to counties and promptly met resistance.

Doctors and nurses find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place as a lack of consensus on how medical services should be handled between the national and county governments bites.

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