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Doctors' strike leaves patients in agony as CS says there's no money to meet demands

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Patients leave after services at the Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital were paralysed. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

Patients across the country were left stranded Thursday as doctors kicked off their strike and paralysed key medical services in several hospitals even as the Ministry of Health admitted before Parliament that it does not have the funds to meet doctors' demands.

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