KNH Claims

‘The hospital sector has seen better days’ is a common but too vague, because firstly, the ‘better days’ are the days of colonization! When the health facilities were run by white British men who had come to claim our land and resources by order of Queen! We can never claim to have had better days yet we, as collective Kenyans, have never contributed to any significant improvement, system-wise & resources-wise. The biggest referral Hospital in Eastern & Central Africa, the sick would travel from as far as Guinea & Congo Brazzaville to come seek world class health care. Whatever the doctors here said was final; if it was an order to amputate your leg, you didn’t go seek another opinion, as you deemed the opinion given was the BEST!

The good book states “…where your wealth is, there lies your heart.” the jist of it is that we should place our wealth in the Almighty Kingdom and as a consequence our hearts will be with him. This being the best option in a crazy world. Amen!

Similarly governance is the same in countries, whatever the governance or rather the power that be values there their hearts lay, in the sense: funding, management, public relations et all

Testament is how in sync the government machinery works to protect the President or with what finesse the financial controller dispatches funds to the projects, in existence or not, at the slightest beckoning of the powers that be. After all they are serving under the pleasure of…… In this way you can know what exactly is valued by the government of the day.

In the onset KNH was the hospital for Presidents and the high and mighty across the region!

SHAME ON US! Shame! Shame!

How could we be bequeathed such a gem and end up turning it from an enviable institution to the laughing stock of the whole region. That the powerful men and women of old would trust the facility enough to have an operation within to a situation where even the poorest Kenyan today would fear for their lives and would visit for lack of a better option! Shame!

From the crowning jewel of Heath care in the region to a rapists’ paradise and the management has the guts to come out in public and DENY the claims clearly resonating with most Kenyans’ tale.
For whom does the hospital exist?
To who does the hospital owe service?
From who does the hospital get feedback on services given?

As gory as the rape claims are, and indeed they stink to high heavens. Especially with the added information that these are new mothers being raped, after delivering! A lady who has gone through the traumatising delivery of baby and is now being subjected to rape and sexual advances from ward operators. We would like to focus on the fact of negligence in KNH! Negligence that would make the former Colonial masters shy in the high horses as they whip their black slaves into submission and labour for they would feed and ring a doctor incase one slave was sick!

We have taken fellow Kenyans for dirt! Negligence on all levels creating a cycle of uncontrolled misfortunes that are credited to vis major (Acts of God) How much more can we take?

Case and point is the number of patients who die off in casualty section of KNH. For those unfamiliar, Casualties is where you first walk in when in pain, hurt, broken, raped and any other medical emergency. Here nurses should stabilize you, a doctor should see you and direct you to whichever ward that would cater to you or prescribe medication or further tests. With the many accidents in Kenya, you can only imagine the number of casualties that are driven in,walk in and carried by family, well-wishes & other players. Either it is the few staff or a negligent lot, but too many lives are lost here as the patient awaits their turn to be checked, diagnosed & admitted. Something as simple as pain medication would take ages to get to a patient. So you can appreciate how complex cases of internal injury, head injuries result to death while ‘undergoing treatment in KNH’

Cases of surgeons incompetence while operating, leaving needles, spatulas etc inside patients have gone unchecked!
Cases of doctors leaving patients in the hands of learning students have gone uncontrolled, I appreciate the complexity of having to teach a medical student while on the job but serious cases such as brain surgeries, should be left to the most competent of workforce! Not leaving students to poke and poke in diagnostic curiosity. For the simple reason that this is a HUMAN BEING! And as such care and caution have got to be pillars of the profession, and we need not stress that, period.

Management of the health facility should be mean, selfish and sensitive to the patients and workers within. There should never be any other law in operation within a health facility other than the law set out by the hospital management advised and tempered by the experienced doctors, nurses and administrators. The idea that there are cartels within the hospital walls, whose interest is purely profit, having a say on administration, operations and direction of the health facility in general.
Why would you let your health facility be run a mock by those who wish to impoverish it and patients within??
A particular lack of responsibility lacks in the management, a lack of attachment to the overall accomplishment of his/her charge.
In a nation where a minister (John Michuki) single handedly muzzled wayward cartels in the transport industry to give way to a sane, humane sector that values life as it is, reducing the rate of road carnage to less than half, ripples of which are felt even today; We are not swayed by the CS’s claims to ignorance of the issues in his industry, nor duped by his request for investigation by the DCI.

He should know what is going on! Otherwise what is his job there?
He does know! I dare say and is playing politics with the so-called ‘cartels’