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From picket lines to policy: A stand for dignity and change

 

In December 2016, doctors in Kenya took an extraordinary stand. As Secretary General of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), I stood alongside thousands of colleagues on the picket lines. We were exhausted, physically from gruelling shifts, and emotionally from watching patients suffer in broken hospitals.

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