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Tale of desperate, abandoned patients at Kenyatta National Hospital

Medical stretchers are seen abandoned along corridors at the main hospital during a strike by medical practitioners following the failed negotiations between health unions and government on wage increase and improvement of working conditions in Kenya's capital Nairobi, December 22, 2016.

If the walls of ward five at Kenyatta National Hospital could speak, they would tell the story of Serah Njoki.

Because Ms Njoki cannot speak, the walls would share her helplessness, despair and pain.

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