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KMPDU defends return-to-work deal amid grumbling it abandoned interns

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President William Ruto hosted KMPDU officials for a meeting at State House Nairobi on May 11, 2024. [PCS]

Days after signing a deal with the government to end the long-drawn doctors' strike, officials of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) have denied claims that they abandoned the interests of medical interns.

The deal ended the 56-day industrial action by doctors that crippled the nation's public health sector, at a time when the medics from other cadres were adjuvating the situation.

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