Millicent just like millions of mothers in Kenya prefers to take her children to public hospitals for their routine immunisation programmes. With the nurses and clinical officers’ strike entering the second week Monday, hospitals have been deserted with a handful of frustrated patients. The President said there were 20,910 isolation beds and 827 infectious diseases ICU beds across the country but did not speak about the strike. Health has become an economic and political tool to generate business capital for the political class,” National Nurses Association President Alfred Obengo said. He cited the case of four healthcare workers who succumbed to Covid-19 in private facilities after they failed to secure an ICU bed in public hospitals.

Source: The Star December 13, 2020 20:03 UTC