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Patients troop to mission facilities as medics' strike in Kenya bites

Empty beds and mattresses from the maternity wing of Nyeri Referral County Hospital being loaded into a lorry ready to be ferried to neighbouring Mathari Private Hospital on December 6, 2016, after health workers from the facility joined a nationwide strikes for a second day. At least 40 beds were taken to Mathari Hospital. PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD

Helpless families yesterday flocked to private and low-cost mission hospitals to seek medical assistance for their ailing relatives.

This was happening as the nationwide doctors’ and nurses’ strike entered its second day.

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