With better facilities, deaths are avoidable

Watching Kenyans queuing to access health-care services at public health facilities fills my heart with bile. As if this is not enough, after being attended to by the doctor, they are again required to line up at the pharmacy for hours only to be told by the pharmacy attendants that the medicines prescribed are unavailable.

After all this trouble, the hapless patients are normally sent to private pharmacies where they pay through the nose for the prescribed drugs. Your guess regarding the fate of those without money to purchase the drugs is as good as mine.