Healthcare in Kenya is dying a slow death.
Paying to enter med school
Paying for preferable internship centre
Paying for locum, contract or PNP employment
Paying for Masters entry
Incompetency will cripple our hospitals. Time will tell
This country has become a joke;
- Patients are sharing beds
- Goons are killing Kenyans
- Nurses are striking
- Doctors are striking in the next 7 days
- SHA is not functioning well
But a Burundian hawking tea is our problem.
Nurses have been on strike for 38 days today. 89 women and children already dead. Nobody is talking. The President is talking about stadiums and Burundians hawking tea. We are not doing well as a country. We are not doing well. Khabusie!
Imagine studying medicine for nearly a decade only to be told the price tag for your employment letter is 800,000 to a Governor’s broker.
Selling medical slots to the highest bidder isn't just corruption; it's a direct threat to public health. Systemic rot!
No healthcare worker should be earning less than 80k NET salary, regardless of cadre. Not nutritionists, nurses or COs. It's inhuman to pay a professional nurse a salary of 30k.
Two months ago, the Ministry of Health placed medical graduates across the country for internship. We reported to our stations, started working, and have continued serving patients despite not receiving a single shilling in salary.
Two months of work without pay is unacceptable. We have bills to pay, families to support, transport and accommodation costs to meet. We are not asking for a favour-we are demanding what we have already earned.
Enough is enough. Pay medical interns. We need action, not excuses.
#PayInternsKenya