The Bible is a loving gift from our creator. In it we find the answer to some of life's big questions. Eg Where did we come from? What is the purpose of life? And what does the future hold?
ARE SOME KENYAN DOCTORS THUGGISH ?
The suffering we undergo in Kenya is almost humiliating. This are the Tales of Kenyan cancer patients.
It’s time as a country we asked the question on everyone’s minds; Are some Kenyan Doctors Thuggish?
We need to change our attitude towards one another, we need to become our brothers and sisters' keepers and to look out for each other.
From the dreadful prostate, liver, duodenum, lymphoma, skin, bone, breast, lung, kidney, throat and other malignant cancers, the disease is spreading in Kenya like bonfire. And it's not only affecting the urbanites, the villagers are not also spared.
Evidence of cancer scourge can be seen as you visit major hospitals like the Agha Khan, Nairobi West, Mater, Nairobi Hospital, Kenyatta hospital and provincial hospitals too.
And the only cancer specialty facility in Nairobi are flooded with the poor of the poor, the famous Texas hospital, is the sorry state of tales as patients get their chemotherapy treatments while sitting on benches, most getting several chemo cycles at one go, most of them vomiting and looking fragile.
Oblivious to what is going on, is a string of hematologists, urologists, neurologists and oncologists minting millions from seriously sick cancer patients, mostly misdiagnosed from unrelated ailments, with months of attending doctor visits and parting with Sh5,000 for a 4 to 5 minutes consultancy fee.
Outside the doctors office is a reception area crowded with tens of cancer-dying Kenyans, hopeful to get a treatment solution to curb the ailments that is afflicting them.
On average, a doctor will collect over Sh100,000 in about an hour, before he hurriedly rush to several other make-shift offices, after spending 2 hours in a government hospital.
From their offices strategically located from KMA building in Nairobi, to other high-rise buildings at Hurlingham, Valley Road and other posh, these so called consultants are an eye-sore to thousands of cancer patients seeking their medical advice, most of whom are in a hurry to finish up with a patient so they can clear out the backlog of patients waiting at the reception area.
To claim that Kenyan doctors are a bunch of professionals waiting to exploit the sick and the most vulnerable patients in our society, is not an understatement.
The hollow-eyed look of cancer patients they professionally neglect with fake diagnosis, doesn't make them shamelessly twitch an eye.
On my week-long visit to India to Visit a close friend misdiagnosed by a senior hematologist and oncologist at one of a major hospital and university, his almost two pages of resume has been a magnet to many desperate patients looking up for his help.
A bone marrow biopsy, whose results take between 21-30, took about five minutes in his questionable lab manned by a money-hungry technician.
While for months he has been treating the poor man for a form of blood cancer, advising him to get a series of blood transfusions every two weeks, his family got fed up: they sought for a second opinion from other professional in India.
After tests and tests at an India hospital, it was determined that the main source his pain, swellings, weight loss and water retention was carcinoma prostate
cancer.
After about five weeks of surgeries and intensive treatments, my dear old friend miraculously came out of the woods: as fit as a dodo.
Interestingly enough, it's now proven that Kenyan doctors are colluding with Indian hospitals and doctors to ship as many cancer patients from Kenya, as they get a 10% commission from the total bill paid by the poor patients.
And because Kenyans have lost trust in them, Kenyan doctors are now making suspicious and unbelievable arrangements to make Kenyans complete their chemotherapy at Nairobi hospitals, so that they can under-dose or even dilute the medicine bought from Indian hospitals and innocently taken in custody by Kenyan doctors.
Crazy that modern books domainate so much of modern attention. People flock to what’s trending over what’s stood the test of time, and what’s hot right now over timeless and time-tested wisdom. Novelty is our addiction. The Internet is our dealer. Turn to what’s timeless instead.