Patients in Kiambu County might get up to locked wards and empty corridors on Thursday morning. Kenya’s docs’ union has ordered each medic within the county to down their instruments, march via the streets, and demand solutions after almost two months of stalled talks.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) says the well being system is cracking. Staffing is skinny, drug shares are low, and morale has evaporated. Their prescription: halt providers, rally at Kiambu Level V Hospital at 10 a.m., then head to the County Assembly and the Governor’s workplace.
“The scenario is dire: Hospitals with out docs. Patients with out medicine. Caregivers underneath menace. Leaders with out a plan,” stated KMPDU Secretary-General Dr. Davji Atellah.
For 59 straight days, county medics have pressed for higher pay, safer workplaces, and dependable provides. Instead of dialogue, the union claims officers have scapegoated workers and “weaponized public struggling.”
“No healthcare employee ought to be pressured to decide on between their oath and their security. No affected person ought to die ready in deserted wards,” Dr. Atellah warned, vowing to escalate right into a nationwide strike if Kiambu stays unmoved.
Last week, KMPDU demanded that each one newly posted medical officer interns be pulled out of the county, arguing that senior docs, essential for supervision, are absent. “Deploying interns in an atmosphere the place such assist is absent places each the interns and sufferers in danger,” the union stated.
“To the folks of Kiambu: we’re with you. To the federal government: we’re watching,” Dr. Atellah declared. Come Thursday, residents will see whether or not the county blinks or whether or not hospitals really go darkish.
