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Medics shortage still bites as Kenya celebrates World Health Day

The ratio of nurses to patients in Nairobi is nine to a 10,000 population with counties like Mandera, Wajir, Tana- River, Nandi and Samburu having the fewest number of nurses.

According to the World Health Organisation an estimate requirement of the nurse to population ratio should be 25 per 10,000 population.

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