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Crisis deepens as private hospitals plan to join health workers' strike

Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union(KMPDU) officials led by Chairman Samuel Oroko (C) and Secretary General Dr.Ouma Oluga addresses the media at Kenyatta National Hospital on Thursday 08/12/16 where they declined to go back to work and blamed the Government for not honouring their CBA. [PHOTO:BONIFACE OKENDO/Standard].

Kenyans should brace themselves for a total shutdown of all public and private hospitals after doctors, nurses and allied medical workers all joined the nationwide strike which entered its fourth day yesterday.

The health workers dashed hopes of a quick resolution to the health crisis when the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union announced that their members had resolved to have all private hospitals closed.

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