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#1 Posted : Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:35:18 AM
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While doctors' strike last year got the attention of Kenyans more than the current health workers strike, I bet this has to be the worst strike in the health sector.

I got a call from a relative in shags requesting that I send him money so that he can be treated at a private hospital since the local district hospital had closed.

The Nation today reports a case of a mother and child dying after nurses turned them away in Kwale. http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/y4bndxz/-/index.html Sad

This comes a few days after the Bungoma accident where 9 children died. Rescuers had a hard time taking the injured to the few private hospitals in that area.

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#2 Posted : Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:04:31 AM
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Low pay low morale. How can a male nurse survive on a basic salary of kshs. 16,000 in Nairobi?
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kimiri
#3 Posted : Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:25:06 AM
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But surely, even if the nurses were on strike they should have attended to the lady who delivered. What they did is inhuman and totaly unacceptable. What is the difference between them and animals?
nyangao
#4 Posted : Thursday, March 08, 2012 5:21:19 PM
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kimiri wrote:
But surely, even if the nurses were on strike they should have attended to the lady who delivered. What they did is inhuman and totaly unacceptable. What is the difference between them and animals?


As much as we find it highly immoral for the nurses to ignore the patients, the gava knows that the nurses loose public sympathy when such cases are reported.
had the nurses treated the patients, then to the "eyes" of the gava that would mean they are back to work.
The nurses have to seem to be on strike and act it.
just a thought, what if the patients were relatives of the nurses who dismissed them, how would they have acted?
redi
#5 Posted : Thursday, March 08, 2012 5:32:04 PM
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@ KIMIRI blame the government,why have they kept the hospitals open when they know they don't have capacity to provide services.Most of the normal wananchi,don't have a clue of how bad the situation is and keep flocking to the facilities for services.I wonder if there are means available to make the government compensate all who have lost their relatives.
McReggae
#6 Posted : Thursday, March 08, 2012 6:25:26 PM
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.....and now they have been sacked, asked to re-apply for their jobs!!!!
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#7 Posted : Thursday, March 08, 2012 6:40:45 PM
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Quite inhuman if you ask me. Even if they are on strike, I still believe there are human considerations. How do you watch a fellow human being bleeding to death? Wanyama!!
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