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Cancer patients bear brunt of ongoing doctors' strike

Doctor Catherine Nyongesa of Texas Cancer Centre talks oon how the cancer patients number has increased by double due to the doctors strike that is ongoing in public health hospitals on 12 JANUARY 2016 PHOTO DAVID Gichuru

Mary Gathoni Maina saunters into the consultation room followed by her husband Richard Maina at the Texas Cancer Centre in Nairobi.

Ms Gathoni is battling cancer of the colon, which was diagnosed in April last year back in their home in Karatina, Nyeri County.

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