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Intern medics carry weight of public hospitals

Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union members demonstrated along Eldoret Streets in Uasin Gishu County over poor payment of their salaries and delayed employment of medical students (interns) by the government on March 21, 2024. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

The ongoing doctors' strike has exposed a reality about the role of medical interns in public hospitals.

Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha and the Salaries and Remuneration Commission have found themselves in deep trouble with doctors' representatives over the matter of intern doctors. By yesterday the matter remained contentious.

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