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Breakdown: Why Kenyan medics are in big trouble

Reality, for many doctors, is far more harrowing, path to healing others is broken.

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by GORDON OSEN

Realtime27 May 2025 - 04:58
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KMPDU deputy secretary general Dennis Miskella during an interview with the Star at his office in Nairobi on May 22 /LEAH MUKANGA

Once top of their class and full of promise, young doctors now face a brutal truth—medicine is not the prestige-filled path they dreamt of, but one paved with burnout, despair and broken systems.

In lecture halls, they were the brightest—the ones who aced exams, sacrificed sleep and believed that hard work would yield not just meaning, but stability and success.

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