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Grim struggle to keep patient alive

Security guards control number of patients who enter the Coast General Provincial Hospital in the ongoing doctors strike. [Omondi Onyango,Standard]

It took Tom Wanyere three days of frantic calls to persuade a doctor to agree to attend to his 28-year-old son battling stomach cancer at Coast General Hospital (CGH) in Mombasa.

But by yesterday afternoon, the doctor had not turned up.

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