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Sick hospitals: Lack of workers and drugs paralyse health services in Nakuru

A file photo of a deserted ward in Kisumu County. Hospitals in Nakuru County have been paralysed with no medicine and medics [File, Standard]

Poor infrastructure and inadequate medical workers are affecting medical services in most of the county's health centres.

Sirikwa health centre in Kuresoi North is one of those affected. The facility, which caters for an average 50 patients daily, has only three employees; a nurse, a clinical officer and a laboratory technician.

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