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Crisis at Nairobi's biggest public hospital

Mbagathi Hospital, the maternity wing. (Beverlyne musili,Standard)

Nairobi’s biggest hospital is in a major crisis arising from shortage of drugs, even forcing admitted patients to buy own medication from private pharmaceutical shops.

Not even basic medications such as painkillers, which ordinarily retail for less than Sh10 a pair, were available to the hundreds of inpatients at the Mbagathi Hospital operated by the Nairobi County.

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