Mr President Do you Care about our Health?

The sending to jail of the officials of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), is the lowest point that the Jubilee government has allowed itself to stoop. The government has not shown goodwill pretending to be oblivious of the suffering of Kenyans for over two months now.

State hospitals are in crisis, and are at risk of collapsing if most of the demoralised doctors flee their frustrating working conditions and pay. The state of the country's public health system was revealed this past two months by doctors who are at loggerheads with the government over their paltry pay and poor working conditions. Doctors are working up to 40 hour shifts without pay, operating theatres and trauma units have summarily been shut down because of a lack of basic supplies and patients were routinely turned away for lack of ventilators, beds and medicine. It is a shame that hospitals lack basic tools like gloves.