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Dance with death: A health crisis nobody wants to address

Some of the striking nurses and staff from the KNH outside SRC offices on September 25, 2020.

Photo credit: Francis Nderitu | Nation Media Group

By  Allan Olingo

Bureau Chief

The Fuller Project

What you need to know:

  • Health workers in 10 counties are on strike, with several deaths already reported.
  • It is the patients who suffer as the devolved governments and workers unions fight.
  • Nurses and doctors have boycotted work in several counties. 

The dance with death has become an annual ritual. 

Since the advent of devolution in 2013, at least one county witnesses a healthcare workers strike every month. 

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