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Kenya healthcare priorities all wrong

A patient sits helplessly at Kisumu County Hospital ward on December 8, 2016. PHOTO: FILE

The doctors’ strike is a late symptom of a gap in healthcare leadership that has existed for decades.

The country does not recognise healthcare managers as an essential cadre, away from the mainstream clinical cadres.

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