Cases of negligence in Kenya’s health sector alarming

NAIROBI: Last week’s arrest of a quack doctor who has defied all the rules of the medical profession and operated illegal clinics in Nairobi is an indictment on the Government and the institutions set up to protect citizens against malpractices and abuses. It has become the norm rather than the exception for Government agencies to disown such individuals only after something untoward has happened.

It is disturbing and unacceptable that a clinic where women have been seeking medical attention turns out to be an unlicensed facility where they are allegedly drugged and violated without authorities getting wind of it.