Kenya doctor strike: The public caught between the medics and the government - BBC News

Patients have been left without access to crucial services at state hospitals for a month.

15 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesBy Basillioh RukangaBBC News, NairobiMost of the beds at the labour ward of Kihara Level 4 Hospital on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, are empty.

Only three are occupied out of more than a dozen.

A nurse says the hospital is not taking in women who need a Caesarean as there is no doctor to perform the operation.

The doctors here - and across the country - have been on strike for about a month now.

Public hospitals are virtually empty. There is an unsettling silence in places normally brimming with people seeking a host of critical services.

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