Swali: Inawezekanaje nchi (Kenya) kutokuwa na huduma za hospitali kwa zaidi ya miezi mitatu?

[eliakeem]

Again, low cost private hospitals are a dime a dozen. The vast majority of Kenyans visit low cost neighborhood hospitals. During the strike, I visited my local hospital and paid a paltry $880 shillings and went on to get my medication from a local pharmacy.

You have to remember that well over 50% of Kenyans are in the middle class. Government hospitals are frequented by low income Kenyans for subsidized medication and treatment and the middle class and upper middle class for a range of sophisticated treatments.

We keep telling you that Kenya has a sizable middle class, but all Tanzanians want to talk about is Kibera.

Ask any Kenyan on this thread. When was the last time they visited a government hospital? The last time I visited a government hospital was in 1989, when I was born and the same year I got immunized.

Kenya is not Tanzania.

MK254

Your fellow mentioned about the availability of private health facilities and affordability. Le me pause an additional question.... is $ 880 (refer a red text above) cheap for a normal mwananchi wa Kenya to see a doctor at a go?

 

[Iconoclastes]

MK254

Your fellow mentioned about the availability of private health facilities and affordability. Le me pause an additional question.... is $ 880 (refer a red text above) cheap for a normal mwananchi wa Kenya to see a doctor at a go?

Are u just being argumetantative just for the sake or what? Why is it so hard for u to understand?

Again, low cost private hospitals are a dime a dozen. The vast majority of Kenyans visit low cost neighborhood hospitals. During the strike, I visited my local hospital and paid a paltry $880 shillings and went on to get my medication from a local pharmacy.

Why did u leave out that word shillings besides that figure and instead focused on the $, which clearly was a slip? $880=KSH88000, or TSH1760000.
It doesnt cost that much in the public hospitals and in the NGOs/religious run medical centres, unless ofcos it's a medical situation that requires specialized treatment, ie a surgery.

A thousand patients did not die as a result of of the doctors strike bcos there were numerous other alternative medical centres that offer as cheap services as the public medical centres, if not cheaper, even in in the most impoverished areas, ie Kibera or Turkana which btw are awash with NGO and church run medical facilities. In fact, this section of the society was very well cushioned against the consequences of that strike. Have u heard the horror stories of hundreds of patients succumbing to their illnesses as a result of failing to recieve treatment in the public hospitals? No!

And may I inform u that despite the doctors' strike, he public hospitals were not shut down as a result. There wre nurses and clinical officers present tending to the patients, and the govt also mobilized military doctors to the main referal hospitals to help handle emergency cases in the absence of the doctors.

 

[Kafrican]

Nimekuwa nikifuatilia kwa ukaribu kuhusu mgomo wa madaktari nchini. Imefikia mahala kila upande unajiona una haki na nguvu kuliko upande mwingine. Kila mmoja anatunisha misuli. Madaktari kwa upande mmoja hawataki kurudi nyuma na pia serikali kwa upande wake mwingine imeshikiria msimamo wake.
Maswali yangu ni:
1. Mwananchi wa kawaida wa Kenya (ambao ndiyo wengi) amewezaje kuishi bila matibabu kwa kipindi chote hicho?

2. Je hakuna madhara kwa wananchi yaliyotokana na mgomo huo?

3. Kama yapo madhara, nani atawafidia wahanga?

4. Kama hospitali zote za umma zimefungwa, kwa maana nyingine hazifanyi kazi kwa muda wa zaidi ya robo mwaka. Je kuna umuhimu wa kuwa na waziri anayesimamia wizara hiyo?

5. Je nchi haina madaktari wanajeshi ambao wangeweza kuhudumu katika mahospitali ya umma?

Wajumbe naombeni tujadili tukiwa na moyo mkunjufu, huku tukiwafikiria wanawake, waja wazito, watoto, wazee na wengine wote ambao hawana uwezo wa kufanya matibabu kwenye hospitali zinazomilikiwa na watu au taasisi binafsi. Wamewezaje kipindi chote hicho kujitibu??
Nawasilisha.

KDF walituma nurses na madaktary kwa zile hospitali kuukuu yani referal hospital... Walikua wanachapa kazi wakati dakatari wala kwa mgmo

Hawa hapa ni wakutoka kenya airforce

Lakini unafaa ukumbuke wengi wao wako Vitani kule somalia ambako kuna majanga kibeo, inabidi wapeleke madakyari hadi hats walimu

 

[eliakeem]

Iconoclastes

Kafrican

Guys I'm time and again assert that there is no any danger resulted from doctors 3+ months strike.

 

[eliakeem]

MK254

Iconoclastes

Kafrican

Mekatilili

You are strongly denying the adverse effects resulting from doctors boycotting. You pointed out that almost all Kenyans are capable to pay for treatment to private health facilities. Again you talked about availability of private hospitals. Which indeed you praised it as a well established network.

NOW.

See the title of your daily nation and a briefing on the misfortune and fatalities as a result of boycotting.

Doctors' strike is over! But the pain, deaths and costs will be felt for many years.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 15 2017

• Patients. with cancer, expecting mothers, the terminally ill, the poor and vulnerable and those in emergency care have paid an atrocious price.
• In December, Ms Tabitha Bitali had also been turned away from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, where she was scheduled to undergo a goitre operation.
• Some patients were turned away from public hospitals while others were abandoned in the facilities as doctors stayed away from their duty stations