KDF doctors deployed at KNH to handle emergency cases

[Juakali1980]

KDF doctors deployed at KNH to handle emergency cases
Dec. 09, 2016, 3:00 pm
By PATRICK VIDIJA @vidijapatrick
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The government has deployed doctors from Kenya Defence Forces Wing to help handle emergency cases at the Kenyatta National Hospital.

This is after more than 290 specialists at the facility downed their tools on Thursday to join the ongoing medics’ strike.

According to KDF spokesman Col Paul Njuguna, the doctors will remain at the hospital until the strike is over.

"It is our secondary duty to assist alleviate the suffering of patients. Our doctors have gone to KNH to assist the patients suffering following the strike by doctors. They will remain untill the ongoing strike is over," said Njuguna.

Read: More cops deployed to hospitals as doctor's strike enters day two

This comes hours after President Uhuru Kenyatta urged doctors to return to work and not to make innocent patients suffer.


He said that the government was keen on ensuring that issues that staged the strike are resolved and a permanent solution found.

Uhuru said he was confident that the doctor's dispute would be resolved by the end of the day and urged doctors to have compassion.

"I am very hopeful that by the end of the day we should have an agreement. We need to work together because we do not want Kenyans to suffer," the President said.

He made the comments when he visited the Kericho county hospital for the commissioning of modern medical equipment supplied to the facility.

Uhuru asked the doctors to have a spirit of understanding and return to work so as to save lives of patients as the dispute.

Also read: As doctors strike continues, KOT demand Uhuru help to stop deaths

 

[Juakali1980]

Uhuru Kenyatta should know that doctors can survive for months without salaries unlike teachers..Poor leadership

 

[Kafrican]

Uhuru Kenyatta should know that doctors can survive for months without salaries unlike teachers..Poor leadership

Mara nyengine tunapenda kulaumu watu... Doctors problem just like teachers is a national issue that has spanned governments, Uhuru certainly dint cause the mess in our hospitals, he has a duty to take leadership and solve it once and for all, but on the other hand he cant be held solely responsible for it. The cartels that run mafia house (oh sorry, Afya house) have existed long before, since enzi za moi, when he used to make roadside decisions.......

Try to be a president then when you have taken loans to do your own projects that you pledged in your campaign, tachers strike and want 300% salary increase, then next month doctors want there share, if you give them what they want that easy they will keep on demanding more everytime inflation goes up by a percentage, you will open up the flood gates, everyone with a union will be striking by the next day... Even if they deserve the pay hike, the govt can never give them exactly what they want no matter how justified.
From the citizens perspective, we tend to think they should be given what they deserve, from a govt perspective they see it as more money going to salaries... For example, I was shocked the other day when I read somewhere that the county govnt of Nairobi that they were proud that they have increased the budget for development to a higher % of the budget Tha before and they are now at 32% of the budget going to development while the rest go to recurrent things like salary and wedges... This was shocking! The percentage should be the other way where more goes to development......
I know the usual answers that a Kenyan will be saying is things like if MPs were to cut there salaries it will be enough to pay the doctors, so the doctors are justified... I have another opinion, If they really cared, no one would die because doctors were on strike, what kind of doctor who took an oath lets a patient die just coz he has a bone to pick with his employer, that doctor doesn't deserve to be in a hospital in the first place, were is the medical board when you need it........... I want to see a day when teachers and doctors will strike not so that their salaries are raised, but so that they demand for more medicines, more HIV,malaria,TB drugs, more surgical doctors sothat operations can be varied out in more hospitals inthe counties, more training courses so that doctors can refresh themselves with basic or latest medical research , best practices.... So that students in schools Han each have books and chairs and better classrooms, so that every kid is guaranteed a meal while in school.... That is the day I will respect them for beeing genuine in wanting to improve the system...... Hats mimi nataka salary yangu ipandishwe, am sure 80% of us want our salaries increased after every financial year...but more importantly for me, I want to be the best in what I do, so that companies will be fighting over me

 

[Kafrican]

Karibu kila mwaka mshahara unapandishwa kidogo kwa madaktari Na walimu, lakini karibu kila mwaka hali ya afya Na kiwango cha elimu kinabaki pale pale, hakuna nafuu yoyote.... Its high time tu demand better infrastructure in schools and hospitals badala ya better salaries.

We want each hospital to have enough benches enough to fit regular traffic at the hospital, we want them to have clean toilets, we want the doctor to patient ratio increased three fold, we want each and every school in Kenya to be brick and motor . Any school located across a river where kids have to cross by boat should have a bridge constructed...... Yani we want to here that financial year, we want every highschool science lab in the country to be state of the art and fully equipped...... Yani in short, that financial year, we want like an adittional $2Billion (1 for hospitals, 1 for schools) to be set aside for a project to change the face of our hospitals and schools... Then after that we set up some kind of construction company run by an independent govt board monitored by the auditor that will be responsible for using NYS experties to maintain and repairs any damage to holpitals of school buildings and make sure they are always well maintained

 

[Juakali1980]

Mara nyengine tunapenda kulaumu watu... Doctors problem just like teachers is a national issue that has spanned governments, Uhuru certainly dint cause the mess in our hospitals, he has a duty to take leadership and solve it once and for all, but on the other hand he cant be held solely responsible for it. The cartels that run mafia house (oh sorry, Afya house) have existed long before, since enzi za moi, when he used to make roadside decisions.......

Try to be a president then when you have taken loans to do your own projects that you pledged in your campaign, tachers strike and want 300% salary increase, then next month doctors want there share, if you give them what they want that easy they will keep on demanding more everytime inflation goes up by a percentage, you will open up the flood gates, everyone with a union will be striking by the next day... Even if they deserve the pay hike, the govt can never give them exactly what they want no matter how justified.
From the citizens perspective, we tend to think they should be given what they deserve, from a govt perspective they see it as more money going to salaries... For example, I was shocked the other day when I read somewhere that the county govnt of Nairobi that they were proud that they have increased the budget for development to a higher % of the budget Tha before and they are now at 32% of the budget going to development while the rest go to recurrent things like salary and wedges... This was shocking! The percentage should be the other way where more goes to development......
I know the usual answers that a Kenyan will be saying is things like if MPs were to cut there salaries it will be enough to pay the doctors, so the doctors are justified... I have another opinion, If they really cared, no one would die because doctors were on strike, what kind of doctor who took an oath lets a patient die just coz he has a bone to pick with his employer, that doctor doesn't deserve to be in a hospital in the first place, were is the medical board when you need it........... I want to see a day when teachers and doctors will strike not so that their salaries are raised, but so that they demand for more medicines, more HIV,malaria,TB drugs, more surgical doctors sothat operations can be varied out in more hospitals inthe counties, more training courses so that doctors can refresh themselves with basic or latest medical research , best practices.... So that students in schools Han each have books and chairs and better classrooms, so that every kid is guaranteed a meal while in school.... That is the day I will respect them for beeing genuine in wanting to improve the system...... Hats mimi nataka salary yangu ipandishwe, am sure 80% of us want our salaries increased after every financial year...but more importantly for me, I want to be the best in what I do, so that companies will be fighting over me

When it comes to a strike that affects the whole nation and more so hospitals,the buck stops with the head of state.The guys are actually doing volunteer work ,working for the government..they toiled their tails to become doctors & TO A SEE A MERE HAIR DRESSER BECOME AN INSTANT BILLIONARE STEALING MONEY FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH IS WHAT DROVE THESE DOCTORS TO DOWN THEIR TOOLS...