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Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union members demonstrate along Eldoret streets Uasin Gishu County on March 21, 2024. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

A flicker of light at the end of a dark tunnel that had built around public hospitals showed, albeit faintly, yesterday after President William Ruto stepped in to ease the doctor's strike.

Before the statement by Head of Public Service at KICC yesterday, sources said the President had called for a meeting at State House with an express intent to end the stalemate.

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