Seven patients have died since doctors and nurses began their nationwide strike on Monday.

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Four patients died at Kiambu, Mbagathi and Kisumu hospitals while two passed on at Kinango health facility.

Expectant mothers in labour were turned away in Kisumu as medics stayed away from the health centres.

Patients who went to seek treatment at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Uasin Gishu County were turned away.

Babies in incubators were unattended to in Kisii, while road accident victims were abandoned in Mombasa, according to the Nation.

Doctors refused to show up at Afya House, Nairobi, for negotiations with the government to unlock the stalemate.

The doctors want the government to meet their pay demands in a June 2013 Collective Bargaining Agreement.