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Why counties are stuck with errant doctors despite push to fire them

Relatives assist a patient from a car to a stretcher at KNH, Nairobi on Friday 13/01/17. [PHOTO:BONIFACE OKENDO/Standard]

As the doctors’ strike enters week six, the Health Ministry is digging in for a long siege while governors are plotting a decisive blow.

It is sad sick Kenyans are not staying at home, but Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu is telling them to visit public hospitals, which he says are ably manned by nurses and clinical officers. But his prescription is not as curing as it sounds.

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