When will doctors and State end all this suffering?

Patients on long queues as they wait to be attended to at St. Mary’s Mission Hospital, Lang’ata. Since the beginning of doctors strike, the facility has been receiving a lot of patients. PHOTO BY NANJINIA WAMUSWA

No one understands the pain of losing a first-born son more than Consolata Masieyi of Matungu, Kakamega County.

On December 10, the 50-year-old woman was cooking for her other children when she received a call that would change her life forever.