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Increasing cases of bogus doctors cause for worry

Kenyans are a worried lot with the increasing cases of fake doctors in our hospitals. Just the other day, a man who had been pretending to be a doctor was arrested at Kisii Referral Hospital where he had reportedly worked for six months.

First, how do these people get into these hospitals and why is it that it is only public hospitals that are affected? Who pays these bogus doctors because they don’t spend all that time in hospital then go home and eat stones? No wonder we are having many cases of misdiagnosis.

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