alma1 wrote:aemathenge wrote:Intelligentsia wrote:MoH is definitely under-testing, someone tell me why pris?
Bureaucratic Red Tape.
Lethargic Civil Service.
Distracted Political Machinery.
Fiscal Indiscipline and Insufficiency.
Health Personnel Inadequacy.
Distrust Of Anything Government On The Ground.
Lack of appropriate equipment, and where available, lack of operation, repairs, and maintenance technician level personnel.
(All Cadre of Public Health Personnel Have Given A Strike Notice.)
A Distracted Political Leadership.
I could on all day but this is really depressing.
All this may be true....or not.
But if you are going to make what seems like a reasonable argument, please include all the possible parameters
Kenyans are stupid
Kenyans have been scared to not test
most important
Maybe, just maybe the MOH is working within it's current limitations, including you personally one day saying here on wazua that medics should not be funded
Maybe, we went wrong with devolution of health care....
many many reasons
I on my part believe in the technical team in this pandemic issue.
Using the resources they have to maximum results. We know we can't test 100k a day like the US. So we rely on contact tracing which has worked before even for Ebola.
I will tell you without a shadow of a doubt. What the East African countries have done will be tought in Medical School on how to deal with pandemics.
We have an opposite scenario just 200km away in TZ. Trust me, you do not want to be in TZ right now.
Celebrate our MOH team from our nurses to the policy makers. Only TZ knows what kind of shit we would be right now.
This tragic video drama on how to run an East African country pandemic is about to enter an interesting episode tomorrow, Monday, 18 May 2020.
Stay tuned.
Copy and paste extract.Treasury Pushes Health Workers’ Demand For Fat Perks To CountiesSATURDAY MAY 16 2020Health workers’ quest for better allowances hangs in the balance after
county governments were told to
reorganize their budgets to raise
Sh2.356 billion required to implement the welfare and insurance package
This comes after
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, in a letter to Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) chairperson Lyn Mengich,
told counties to carry their own crosses.
“County governments should be requested to reorganise their respective budgets and
provide for the Covid-19 medical emergency allowance for their staff as per your approval,” Mr Yatani says in the May 5 letter.
STRIKEThe Treasury’s position will likely exacerbate the situation
if health workers in public facilities down their tools on Monday, as they have threatened, over poor working conditions and lack of equipment.The planned strike will come amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which has ravaged the global economy and decimated lives,
demoralizing health workers.
But despite that, the strike should be the last thing to happen.
Source Link from The Nation:
https://www.nation.co.ke...554234-7iwf8m/index.html