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Striking doctors
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Desperate patients seek options amid strike by doctors

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Striking doctors in a procession along Uhuru Highway in Nairobi on April 9, 2024.

Photo credit: File| Nation Media Group

Amid a work boycott by doctors countrywide to push the government to address grievances relating to pay and other issues, desperate patients in Kiambu County are resorting to seeking treatment in free medical camps established by charitable organisations.

The Nation has established that poor locals who cannot afford private healthcare are thronging free medical camps to seek help, often regardless of whether such camps have been established to cater for their ailments.