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Embu teachers skipping classes 'to search for herbal remedies in the bush’ over SHA failures

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The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Embu branch now says a section of its members have abandoned their duties and taken to spending time in bushes collecting medicinal shrubs, stems, and roots to prepare alternative herbal medicines amid shortcomings in the Social Health Authority (SHA) scheme.

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