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Country faces full blown health crisis as doctors’ strike begins

Chibanzi Mwachonda

Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union acting Secretary-General Chibanzi Mwachonda (centre) addresses journalists in Nairobi.

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

By  Angela Oketch

Content Lead Health and Science

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • With no one to attend to a majority of Kenyans, the outcome is too dire to contemplate.
  • There were 852 Covid-19 patients admitted to hospital, with 86 in intensive care, as of yesterday.

The crisis at public hospitals is expected to grow worse as doctors join nurses and clinical officers in boycotting work.

For two weeks, public hospitals have been manned by doctors after the other healthcare employees went on strike.

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