Our doctors might as well be hawkers

Our doctors are behaving like hawkers. The Kenyan health sector is crumbling. Gone are the days when doctors would work for only one hospital. It is now common to find that several of them work in other hospitals and even their own clinics. These doctors hawk their services about at the expense of their patients who often times suffer in silence.

Private hospitals are not spared of this trend either. Most hospitals have now become more of a business than noble institutions. The medical profession in Kenya has lost its decency. Walking into any hospital for treatment without insurance is as good as staying out on the street . In most cases even those under NHIF covers are treated like second class citizens. Many doctors and nurses no longer care about the Hippocratic Oath in which they swear to uphold ethical standards and treat patients to the best of their ability.