The doctors’ strike, which today enters day 19, is clear and incontrovertible evidence that the public healthcare system is irreversibly broken down.
The hapless bureaucrats who prop the creaking edifice up have run out of ideas to resolve the impasse. The time-worn pathetic knee-jerk threats and citing of court orders have yielded nothing.
MoH’s dogged mandarins must have realised that they are dealing with a new generation of doctors, who are worlds apart from the doctors of the 80s and 90s.
Only seven years ago, in 2017, doctors kept off hospitals for a record 100 days.
The person suffering the most is the poor hustler the Kenya Kwanza government announced enjoys pride of place in this administration.
Cabinet Secretary Susan Wafula should make every effort to get the doctors back to work.
The laid-back approach that Wafula and her team have taken is based on the confidence that they do not themselves get treated in public hospitals.
The big chiefs have the luxury, paid for by the very helpless hustlers now being turned away from public hospitals, to get their hangovers healed at The Nairobi Hospital.
A government that cares cannot fold its hands and watch as millions suffer in silence.
The public does not care about who is right and who is wrong. Wafula needs to resolve this stand-off.
Quote of the Day: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”
Jesus Christ
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