Kenyan Doctors Strike; Patients Left Unattended or Turned Away

FILE - A striking Kenyan doctor holds his stethoscope in the air as he and other medical staff demonstrate in Nairobi on Feb. 15, 2017. Kenyan doctors began another strike on March 15, 2024, accusing the government of failing to fulfill promises from the 2017 strike.

Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike Thursday, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care.