In Kenya, public hospital doctors are in their third week of a nationwide strike over pay issues. The doctors’ union has taken their protest to the street as it demands the Kenyan government pay them for past wages they are still owed, and hire over 3,000 unemployed medical interns.

Alphonse Otieno: “Medical services are not free. You cannot tell us that medicine is a calling. Apart from being a calling, medicine is a career. It is a career. We need to be paid. We are human beings.”

The ongoing strike has led to major disruptions in healthcare across Kenya, but the government says they don’t have the funds to fulfill strikers’ demands as it navigates a looming debt crisis.