Stop being a fake alarmist where did COHOs want to substitute Dental surgeons or CO psychiatrists substituting psychiatrists?
Who is allowing COHOs to go through their education and acquiring competencies if not the same doctors training them and the regulatory bodies?
If COHOs have gone through school or a requesting for them to be allowed to acquire certain competencies which they feel they can deliver how is that substituting doctors?
It’s the same argument with banning COs from doing a CS section instead of looking at the how and why such a suggestion was prompted.
In no world can a CO replace a doctor so you doctors should stop acting like you’re replaceable by petty ego issues.
A doctor has no business fighting,demeaning or patronizing a CO,they should take their issues with the government and regulators and even so it shouldn’t be doing away with them simply because they address important issues of accessibility and even by extension affordability of care.
A doctor who went to school for 6+ years to come fight COs is a wasted soul and simply regressive.
I have worked with,supervised and even hired both diploma and degree COs and all I ever felt was they’re colleagues. In no world would a CO take over or overshadow a well trained,competent and confident doctor,infact if you provide leadership they’ll always respect you.
The insecure doctors should take their energy and war in bettering the state of healthcare in our country holistically to accomodate all of us. In a functional system there should and is clear separation of roles and responsibilities of these two cadres.
You’re crying universal healthcare but don’t want COHOs to remove teeth in Lodwar,how many dentists can set camp and work in Turkana county? So doleful!!
Quality of care is pegged on the iron dome triangle of healthcare there’s no quality if the service is not accessible and affordable in the first place. A COHO would rather attend to a patient in Lodwar than let the patient die of Ludwig’s angina just because he’s not a dentist and the closest one is in Eldoret. Thats why I talk of policies and regulations pegged from a country’s health needs assessment.
I think I need to be teaching people more about healthcare systems and policies on this timeline including doctors themselves!
Most doctors are ignorant and socially detached to reality they perceive COs as their enemies who are eating from their clients yet they have no idea what the health need assessment scale is for the population they serve. When I see dentists who have never set foot to practice in their own villages being against COHOs and Dental assistants then I see a very entitled ignorant lot,whom do they think attempts to that dental issue of a 60 year old woman in Kabuchai Bungoma?
They don’t want more schools offering BDS,they don’t want COHOs and whenever there’s a negligence dental case they cry the most than the bereaved.
This is why I should be the next CS or PS in that ministry in Sifuna’s government 😂😂
Hiii guys,i didn't know that there's a link of public participation of Finance Bill 2026. With options of delete,amend and accept from the clauses.
Here's the link: https://t.co/5VPj1zifxM
@edgarwabwire_ We community oral health working in a government hospitals and private sector this has enhanced accessibility to dental services whereas Dental officers have concentrated in urban places. The way to go is to streamline or create a reasonable pathways for career progression.
@edgarwabwire_ The members of KDA are the ones lecturing in this programs even in diploma level, that means KDA has always been aware of community oral health.
@edgarwabwire_ The wants to monopolize dental services which the impact will increase the cost of dental services hence reduce accessibility to the public who are already enjoying it. It’s an economical war rather than patient safety.