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Patients hit, hospitals shut as staff press on with strike in Taita Taveta

Striking health workers demonstrate in Voi town. [Renson Mnyamwezi, Standard]

Sixty-seven public health facilities in Taita Taveta county remained shut yesterday for a second week running as workers pressed on with their strike over withheld statutory deductions.

Health workers and support staff said they would only resume duty after their statutory deductions for the four months to September are remitted.

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