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Ease patients’ suffering in public hospitals

The sorry state of public hospitals should worry every Kenyan wary of the social-economic health and productivity of the population.   

Six years since the Health docket was devolved, there’s little to celebrate. According to a 2019 Lancet report, at least 20,000 helpless Kenyans die annually due to poor health services. Between January and this month, the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board has shut down 38 health facilities for various blunders.  

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