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Ignore sideshows, fix public health woes facing Kenya

Doctors at Uhuru Park as they waited for their colleagues to be released, KMPDU officials had been imprisoned for contempt of court. PHOTO: STANDARD /FILE

The mood at Uhuru Park on Wednesday was electric. More than a thousand doctors and other citizens marched, sang and danced as they waited for the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) leadership to be released. Opposition leaders, senators and MPs truned up to express their solidarity. Every time their speeches veered from the health crisis, the crowd roared “no politics”. Analysed with what was to happen barely 48 hours later, this was a light-bulb moment.

By Friday, newsrooms and the Internet had exploded with new hashtags, images and complex coding explanations to prove the insincerity and the smallness of the doctors.

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