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Provision of quality healthcare should be counties' top priority

KMPDU national executive members, led by Secretary General Davji Atellah address a media briefing on the Kiambu healthcare crisis, on October 4, 2025. [Benard Orwongo, Standard]

The ongoing doctor’s strike in Kiambu County has once again exposed the dark underbelly of neglect of the Kenyan healthcare sector. And following news that 136 newborn babies have died during 127 days of doctors strike in Kiambu County, Kenyans must confront the fact that the situation is dire, and turning all the more violent.

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