Patients' agony as workers strike shuts Kitui wards

County workers protest outside Governor Charity Ngilu’s office on September 9, 2019. [Paul Mutua, Standard]

Patients at the Kitui county referral hospital and the other 200 health facilities in eight sub-counties were ordered to leave as a strike by county workers began to bite.

Some medical staff, who spoke to Standard on anonymity because they are not permitted to speak to the press, said no patient would be allowed into the county's health facilities until the strike was over.