Kenya: Doctors Raise Alarm Over Use of Interns During Strike

Striking doctors say patients who are attended to by interns risk being incorrectly diagnosed. The doctors' union says all of this can be avoided if government gives into their demands of a 300 percent salary increase and better working conditions.

Members of Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union protest.

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