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Helpless child deserted as patients leave Kisumu Hospital

Baby Hope Awiti, who is physically challenged, rests in her bed at a Kisumu County Hospital’s deserted ward as doctors and nurses began their nationwide strike yesterday. [Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard]

Medics have abandoned a four-year-old parent-less child as they downed their tools at the Kisumu County Hospital.

Baby Hope Awiti, as she is referred to by subordinate staff at the hospital, was first abandoned by her parents in September this year at the facility's Maternal-Child Health Centre. A nurse at the facility found the child, who could neither walk nor talk, at the hospital's waiting bench.

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