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Abandoned baby girl dies as strike enters fourth day

Doctors and nurses take to the streets of Kitui as the nationwide strike entered its fourth day on December 8, 2016. The Kenya National Union of Nurses Kitui branch secretary, John Kimanzi, vowed to push on with their industrial action that has paralysed medical services in all public hospitals and other health facilities. [Photo:Paul Mutua/Standard]

A three-week-old baby girl died on Wednesday morning, adding to the sad statistics of the ongoing doctors' strike.

Baby Victoria Tunda was abandoned inside an incubator room at Malindi Sub-county Hospital maternity and later died as the doctors' strike entered the fourth day.

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