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The life and times of a kenyan doctor
bwenyenye
#31 Posted : Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:53:58 PM
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I take the bashing in good faith. My argument still holds. The docs have been awarded some more money. Good for them. Now let me see how service to me, the patient at KNH will improve without facilities being provided and improved. What we needed are structural reforms not salary increments only. ( by the way, I was never against salary increments but against the increments being given as stand alone). As rightly pointed out here, these guys have above average grey matter. I still think there were better ways to handle these issues. They have lost a lot of public respect as they have come out as selfish people only interested in monetary gain. Now let us see how they function without microscopes and X Ray equipment.

And No. I do not work for GOK.
I hold my peace.
I Think Therefore I Am
Dash
#32 Posted : Friday, December 16, 2011 10:01:55 AM
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@bwenyenye many doctors I know were against accepting that deal because the healthcare reforms were not touched on and felt betrayed by their leaders. That is why there was a furore when the strike was called off and the leaders had to call it on again and again called off. Unfortunately they were outwitted by the gorv during negotiations and very many feel betrayed.Some were really fighting for wanjiku. Howevet the negos are still going on as of yesterday to between the union and gorv to negotiate about the other 12 points that were not looked at including healthcare reforms. UNFORTUNATELY we do know the history of GOK and actually enforcing what a task force table
bwenyenye
#33 Posted : Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:55:25 PM
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Dash wrote:
@bwenyenye many doctors I know were against accepting that deal because the healthcare reforms were not touched on and felt betrayed by their leaders. That is why there was a furore when the strike was called off and the leaders had to call it on again and again called off. Unfortunately they were outwitted by the gorv during negotiations and very many feel betrayed.Some were really fighting for wanjiku. Howevet the negos are still going on as of yesterday to between the union and gorv to negotiate about the other 12 points that were not looked at including healthcare reforms. UNFORTUNATELY we do know the history of GOK and actually enforcing what a task force table


That is good news to my ears. At least someone is thinking seriously about wanjiku. I had opposed their approach because I knew that it would end with genuine grievances not addressed and doc's with egg on their face. What a sad day for Kenya. I know there are very good docs out there. I know one who would cry every time they lost a patient due to lack of equipment. What I realized was that for her, her passion was to save lives. It is her passion that made me realise they would be betrayed.And it came to pass. She came to see me yesterday very very depressed.

Wapo watu watashika moto wa jehanam kwa mkono!
I Think Therefore I Am
Dash
#34 Posted : Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:00:26 PM
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bwenyenye wrote:
Dash wrote:
@bwenyenye many doctors I know were against accepting that deal because the healthcare reforms were not touched on and felt betrayed by their leaders. That is why there was a furore when the strike was called off and the leaders had to call it on again and again called off. Unfortunately they were outwitted by the gorv during negotiations and very many feel betrayed.Some were really fighting for wanjiku. Howevet the negos are still going on as of yesterday to between the union and gorv to negotiate about the other 12 points that were not looked at including healthcare reforms. UNFORTUNATELY we do know the history of GOK and actually enforcing what a task force table


That is good news to my ears. At least someone is thinking seriously about wanjiku. I had opposed their approach because I knew that it would end with genuine grievances not addressed and doc's with egg on their face. What a sad day for Kenya. I know there are very good docs out there. I know one who would cry every time they lost a patient due to lack of equipment. What I realized was that for her, her passion was to save lives. It is her passion that made me realise they would be betrayed.And it came to pass. She came to see me yesterday very very depressed.

Wapo watu watashika moto wa jehanam kwa mkono!


Trust me there are very many with that passion. Believe me when I say many are are for the money but even more are for the passion. I personally know some who use money out of their own pockets to help their patients. But the ones with the "dont care" attitudes are always the ones highlighted. I was even more disgusted to hear a mwananchi commenting on TV that the docs should not bother the GOK so much because next year is election year and they need all the money they can save. Disgusting.
Lets hope for the best with the task force
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