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Counties should get more serious on healthcare

There is no reason our hospitals should lack doctors. [iStockphoto]

A report by the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentist Union lays bare the poor state of staffing in public hospitals.

Homa Bay County, with a population of 1.1 million people according to the 2019 population census, has only two dentists and 10 pharmacists.

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