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Hospitals on their deathbed amid graft, cash crunch

Source: Adopted from the 2015/2016 National and County Health Budget Analysis

Most county hospitals cannot afford medicines, food or linen for patients as almost all their money go into paying salaries.

Salaries, low financial allocations to health, unpredictability and delayed disbursements and corruption have been blamed for the crisis in county hospitals.

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