@Musili

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[Bownnie. @BownnieM]

@MiskellahMD @kmpdu It's this kind of deaths that really make you sad even as a stranger
RiP to the young soul

[Gene Xpert🧬 @dr_gaks]

These days when I’m taking patient biodata I start with:
“Uko kadi?” 😭

[Eric @amerix]

GRAPHIC PHOTOS:

There is a trending conversation on Kenyan X about the deteriorating Public Health System.

This is a conversation that never ends.

The public health system gets worse every year because we have allowed politicians to infiltrate the health system.

Governors, Senators and MCAs influence the structure, resources and frameworks that govern the public health sector.

They decide who receives supplies, who receives resources and what framework runs the system. All this is to siphon resources allocated to the delivery of public health services.

They cripple our health sector, but when they fall sick, they fly abroad.

The photos you are seeing were taken by me back in 2019 when I was heading a public hospital.

This woman had been assaulted by her husband after an evening quarrel because of food.

When she came to the emergency department, her ear was dangling like a soot strand hanging precariously from my grandmother's hut.

In the emergency department, at the minor theatre, in the emergency tray:

• There were no stitching needles or surgical sutures.

• There were no sterilised packs.

• There was no lignocaine for local anaesthesia.

I had no choice but to fix her earlobe.

This was the time when NHIF revenue allocation had just been transferred from the Hospital Management Team to the County Treasury, where County Officials decided who, when, and how much hospitals would receive to fund their budgets.

So, because there were no supplies, I had to beg the maternity matron for them, promising to replenish them.

I did the work. I fixed the earlobe and discharged her.

She didn't have any money with her, which was, of course, obvious, given the family's disagreement over food.

So, I had to dip into my pocket to buy Lignocaine, sutures and Jik to sterilise the pack I had borrowed.

The public health system has been in a mess because self-serving politicians distorted the spirit of devolving the health function.

These politicians spend county resources on buildings, aesthetics, decor, colour, and public relations exercises, except for the basics like:

• Adequate supplies.

• A motivated health care staff.

• A reliable and accessible system.

Unless we overhaul the entire system of political brinkmanship and wheeler-dealers,

Unless we say enough is enough and commit ourselves to draining the swamp,

Unless we stop glamorizing corruption,

Unless we stop sterilizing negative ethno-chauvinist politicians,

Unless we stop pretending to detest corruption, yet when it favours us, we say it is "God's Grace,"

— We shall continue gnashing our teeth, year in and year out.

The people who are silent when doctors, clinicians, nurses and other healthcare staff are complaining about dwindling public health services are the same people who silently collude with corrupt politicians to supply substandard resources in our public hospitals.

CHANGE or PERISH

#BetterTogether

[MethoDman @polo_kimanii]

The recent government “Tuko kadi” posts are deliberately being put out so that we can abandon the slogan and find another one which they will also jump on. By this virtue we must stick with Tuko kadi to the very end. Tuko kadi kama fakin! No distraction

[JUSTINA WAMAE @justinawamae]

It is evident Nairobi HAIWORK. Nyinyi 8M who didn't vote in 2022 lazima mpige kura in 2027.
You have the potential to break this curse of bad leadership.

#inatuhusu ✅ Zaidii

[Nyandia Gachago, ACIM @Nyandia_G]

And to those who told us ‘Maandamano is disruptive’

See? See?

We were not foolish to disrupt.

Hasn’t this government disrupted your lives? Your children’s education? Your income? Your Salaries? Your healthcare? Your access to places?

What haven’t they touched?

Sisi we asked for only one day a week.

MOJA TU.

[Jᴀǫᴇɴ H'ɢʜᴀʀ @Mahleeyk]

Bad governance naye haichagui haibagui! Hauna gari utadrown, uko na gari itabebwa na maji, ukifika home maji imejaa adi ndani! Mido crass akichukua uber mnadrown wote na uber driver wako! Tuchukueni Kura majamaa.

[Mercy Nicky @Mercynicky_]

I hope watu wa Tutam wanatumia chopper, a reminder you can't outrun a failing system

[DJ KROWBAR @DJKrowbar]

Anatacia Syombua (with a Theology Degree) is one of the Disaster Management Officers in @SakajaJohnson county government...

Wacha tuone atatusomea verse gani asubuhi...

[Davis @davis_O94]

Mwananchi ajitolee, aamke 5am, akae kwa jam mpaka afike job 7:30am. Then apige 8-5 yake. Alipe 30% tax. Alafu bado aswim akienda home while fighting for his life.
Aren't we angry enough Kenyans?

[Dr. Roselyn Akombe @DrRoselynAkombe]

The games being played, waaah!

They “manufacture” a charismatic messiah, throw a few teargas canisters at him (yes it is often a him), present him as someone fighting power.

We, who love drama, fall for the ruse!

Punde si punde, they are on the same table, handshakes.

The kawaida citizen is on the menu. With life getting even tougher as the loot must be shared with more people.

Stop being gullible! The house always wins unless we turn the tables on them!

[Redempter Mwikali @redmwiks]

@dnjaga1 These women can't be the standard....please deal with their idiocy as individuals. Men behave badly all the time and we don't make it a men vs women conversation.

[아두라💞💜 @Aduradara61049]

I think it's selfish for a man to suggest a woman get on birth control so he can ejaculate inside of her.

[castorice @castoriceiv]

If we’re going to criticize politicians,let’s be fair. Mt.Kenya leaders aren’t more competent by definition,they just look better when compared to worse alternatives. As long as we don’t have leaders who meet the real definition of good leadership,none of them should be spared.

[@Musili @Nofear98749]

@amenya_nelson This was long overdue.

[Billy @MwangiHub]

Go, go boy child. Overlooked, underestimated, uncelebrated and still becoming unstoppable. Let's break that record 🙏🏽✅

[Saitabao ole Kanchory @Saitabao]

Lest we forget, the people promising to make Kenya a first world country, killed Kenyans for demanding a better country

[@Musili @Nofear98749]

@georgenjoroge_ @Kimanzi_ A man can't just rock their favorite shirt ?

[Redempter Mwikali @redmwiks]

@K24Tv Why is this newsworthy? Family WhatsApp group bulletin could have managed to meet the TA.