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Experts query Ruto's team ability to cure health workers' problems

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Senate Health Committee Chairman Michael Mbito (left) chats with World Bank health specialist Dr. Khama Rogo during a past meeting at the Red Cross Building. [File, Standard]

As a biting shortage of healthcare providers persists, patients in public hospitals continue bearing the pain of long queues with some dying before treatment.

Inadequate staffing, coupled with a lack of harmonisation of salaries, promotions, employment, comprehensive medical cover and delayed salary payment, are among the challenges medics are grappling with.

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