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he doctors’ strike has entered its second week with the situations in public hospitals moving from bad to worse at an alarming rate. These hospitals that were once highly congested have now been reduced to nothing less than a deserted house.
As a matter of fact, most patients are opting for private hospitals despite their high cost of medication compared to public hospitals. The exploitive nature of these private hospitals does not deter patients from seeking for services. Local clinics operated by quacks taking this to their advantage, charging exorbitantly. Despite this highflying cost of services, these clinics offer low quality medication oblivious of the desperate patients’ plight. Additionally, these unlicensed medical practitioners administer counterfeit drugs that pose great health risk to vulnerable patients.
However, those who are not priviledged are left on the hospitals beds with no proper attention. Patients admitted to the hospitals long before the strike took off are still there, complaining of the poor services they have been exposed to compare to the enhanced concern they enjoined before.
Even though some doctors have assumed the Good Samaritan role of helping their patients with or without positive feedback from the government, these distressed patients still exclaim that medical standards are far below the mark. Nonetheless, these patients are holding onto the thin thread of hope this strike will soon be a story of the past.
For a long period of time the impoverished in Kenya have been living on the government’s mercy from distribution of relief foods, health provision and settlement. When these privileges are withdrawn they are left with little or no alternative than to keep fingers crossed for the return of these bounties.
The government should urgently step in to resolve this stalemate for the betterment of all citizens. A stitch in time saves nine.
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