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A case of poor socio-economic policies and starved leadership

By Billow Kerrow

Our medics are on the streets, picketing for better terms of service. Our public health services have shut down this past week. The millions of ordinary Kenyans without the means to the private health service providers are left to literally ‘lick their wounds’ at home and keep healthy if they can. If it gets to maumivui ikizidi uone daktari stage, you could get to the hospital but pass out on the benches without treatment because the daktari are protesting the poor living conditions too.

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