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Patients discharged as strike by doctors takes toll

Jackton Okello who is nursing a bullet wound on his leg at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital. Nurses told him he would be discharged following the ongoing strike by medics. [Mactilda Mbenywe, Standard]

Public hospitals in Kisumu were discharging patients, some of them too sick to walk, as the strike by doctors and clinical officers continued to cripple services.

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