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MPs want Nakhumicha sacked over Linda Mama programme

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Dr Angeline Ithondeka a consultant paediatrician at the Naivasha sub-county hospital has a word with mothers during a post-natal clinic in the facility. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

Women Members of Parliament are now calling on President William Ruto to sack Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha over the ills bedevilling the health sector.

On Tuesday, more than 10 women leaders decried the stoppage of the Linda Mama programme by the Ministry of Health for the last month and accused the CS of abandoning pregnant mothers who are suffering due to the doctor's strike.

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