Put measures in place to stem constant strikes among health workers

Kenya is slowly degenerating into an unfeeling society, immune to the suffering of the most vulnerable people, the sick. This week, hospital wards were empty as thousands of patients in dire need of medication languished at home, some waiting to die because nurses in most counties, are on strike.

The national and county government’s apparent insensitivity to Kenyans’ health, a fundamental basic right, continue to visit pain on many. The sector has been bungled for too long due to mediocre handling. The cyclic strikes of nurses and other medical staff, is undermining a primary pillar upon which President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Big Four agenda is anchored. This is body blow to the much touted Universal Health Coverage (UHC).