By Rose Nyangena &
Monica Soila
Public hospitals have been in the limelight all for the wrong
reasons, the biggest being slackness especially bearing in mind that it is the
only place that caters for the common mwananchi
when it comes to matters, health.
In Isinya health center, unavailability of drugs, lack of
laboratory reagents, few or no staffs are but some of the biggest tribulations
faced by the community.
It has come to the knowledge of many that some of the staff
in the hospital have allegedly established their own clinics, laboratories and chemists,
whereby a patient is referred to, after being told that there are no drugs as
well as lab services for lack of reagents.Whats worse is that these doctors and
health workers are doing this for their own gains, consequently exploiting
people.
“It is totally unacceptable when I don’t get any services
from the only public facility available just because someone who is supposed to
attend to me is so selfish. We all know that the lab technician in our health
center owns a clinic just outside the facility”, said an agitated woman during
a brief meeting with the County Minister for health at the international
biomedical laboratory day at Isinya primary school.
“There are no lab reagents for adults so I was sent to a
laboratory belonging to a friend of the clinical officer, this is pure business
that these people are into”, said another lady in the crowd.
The community urged the minister and his team to visit the
facility to verify the claims for themselves.
“Most of the time one is left unattended for many hours, and
I think this is because some of the staff have overstayed in the facility.
Please let there be an overhaul of these staff to see if there will be a
positive change”, said another man who had an unpleasant ordeal in the health
center.
Airing their grievances in the presence of the County Minister
for health, the people of Isinya sub-county now have hope that a stern measure
will be taken to deal with some of these sensitive issues.
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