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Doctors dare government, vow to go on with strike for the long haul

Davji Atellah, Secretary General of KMPDU leads striking doctors in delivering an address outside Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa's office. [Robert Amalemba, Standard]

Striking doctors have dismissed threats by national and County governments to sack them.

Secretary General of the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), Davji Atella, led the striking doctors in a demonstration outside Kakamega Governor Fernandes Barasa's office on Friday. The doctors held a procession through town before camping at the County offices' locked gates and addressed the governor who did not show up. A big crowd that chanted alongside the doctors and supported their calls, milled around.

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