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Patients’ agony as hospitals close for 3 weeks over strike

Empty hospital beds at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referal Hospital in Kisumu on September 11, 2019. Operations at the public hospitals in the county have been paralyzed as medics start their strike over persistent delayed payment. (Collins Oduor, Standard)

The Kisumu County government is on the spot over a non-functional health care system after public hospitals remained shut for the third the week due to health workers’ strike.

Wards, casualty and out-patient sections of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital and County hospital are deserted because security guards turn away patients.

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