Fear of Covid-19 should not keep patients off hospitals

When the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in the country in March, apprehensive Kenyans avoided hospitals like a plague.

They chose to suffer silently at home, fearing that visiting hospitals would put them at risk of contracting the coronavirus. Parents also feared to take their young ones for vaccination, (un)wittingly exposing them to grave danger in the future. As a result of the boycott, the health institutions, especially the privately-owned ones, started feeling the pinch. Some of them were forced to ease off part of their staff to remain afloat. Anglican Church Archbishop Jackson ole Sapit even appealed for State bailout of church-owned hospitals.