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Immunisation: 5,000 miss doses over nurses’ strike

Nurses protesting (Photo: Courtesy)

More than 5,000 children in Kisumu County may have missed their vaccinations since the nurses' strike began, exposing them to preventable diseases.

Dickson Onyango, the director of health in Kisumu, said immunisation programmes in public hospitals have been paralysed and the county government was seeking help from non-governmental institutions to bridge the gap.

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