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Is it worth becoming a doctor in Kenya?

Doctors have announced a 14-day strike over staff shortages.

Doctors in Kenya have been on the streets protesting against the state of healthcare in the country. They鈥檙e angry about a shortage of staff in hospitals and other public medical facilities.

The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union or KMPDU want the government to plug the gaps by paying for medical interns to start working in hospitals immediately. But the country鈥檚 Ministry of Health says it doesn鈥檛 have the funds to do that.

Dorcas Wangira, the 大象传媒鈥檚 Africa Health correspondent, explains the doctors鈥� main demands and discusses how a planned 14-day strike could impact the health system.

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