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Patients struggle with huge medical bills amidst doctors' strike

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KMPDU maintains the doctors' strike is still on despite court orders. [Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

A human rights organisation has raised concerns over the exorbitant medical bills patients face at private hospitals following the ongoing doctors' strike.

A survey conducted by the Human Rights Agenda (HURIA) in the six Coast counties between March 25 and March 27 established that most of them are paying dearly for medical services.

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