All those anti doctors strike fellas are just full of sh*t. Parroting what they do not know. Kenya deserves a functioning public health system. Not the current death holes called public hospitals. The only way to achieve this is improve personnel retention and then upgrade facilities. Doctors are doing the right thing. Problem is we have incompetence and a thug sharing an office on the hill. There, I have said it and I am a Kikuyu.

What do you know? Will a doctor stop misdiagnosing people because they are suddenly rich? If you are a doctor because you want more money then your motivation is lopsided. Citizen aired a clip of a kid whose cancer of the skin has blown out, this kid has been going to the public hospitals for over 10years and ofcourse our doctors have not seen the need to refer the case elsewhere, because ofcourse wameshindwa.

Our hospitals are a work in progress, what is not changing yet, is the greed. Wawache kuiba masaa, madawa, machine, gloves, gauze, syringes bedsheet na kathalika. Why should I the taxpayer pay for the continued education of these doctors? Wachukue loan HELB na walipe badaaye after all their employment is guaranteed unlike the other professions who will have to tarmac even for 5yrs before they can get a decent job. Ask a doc in US how much his medical degree/residency cost him then comeback and lecture us.

There's no difference of these doctors and the politicians asking for a "bonus". The motivation is the same.

Has anyone of you ever wondered why we have Indian and wazungu doctors giving free medical care to people allover?

We kihii stop the insults they dont make you look any cool or intelligent.

That young kid would have been refered to KNH even tho the samples are taken to a lab just steps outside the gate (a lab that belongs to the so called doctor) it would have still been a step of another opinion. BUT there would be no need Y? Because it a cancer and the expertise to treat that is close to non existent. Either way, a doctor would still need to refer the kid out there to some indian doc.

As for the case of the same doctor being better in NRB hospital...did you even think when you were writing that? That doctor whose education was subsidized by your tax money cannot treat your poor ass...because of pennies. Indian doctors are always holding medical camps for free. Why are you more likely to get better health care in Kikuyu than GOK hosp? The facilities are comparable.

Govt cannot bring down costs by paying exorbitant salaries. Either we go back to cost sharing (Americans call it CO-pay_ or follow the scandinavian way of equipping hospital, buy drugs, and pay normal salaries.

Why do local mwananchi go to KNH instead of the local hospitals? YOu find KNH so congested while Mama Lucy and Mbagathi are close to idle. Some of you would not like their blood samples to be tested here because of trust issues did you not see Rutto (bomet) going to SA for his bandage to be taken off? And why dont they send the samples to Nrb hospital? Have you been to Nrb hospital? Its no different from KNH private wing. And in most cases, your doc comes to treat you as in see you, the same way he'd come see you at Mater, Agakhan, or Karen.

Not everyone is as gullible as you are, you are the same people who believe politicians should be paid more because they attend funerals.

1. Because its not a charity and 40% of us are so poor to pay taxes.

2. If they get an increase, all civil servants will need to get that 150% increase.

3. The health budget does not just cater for salaries, there's drugs and other supplies that will be needed to run efficiently.

4. Privatizing might be the only way to follow to satisfy doctors - that loan ni pesa ya wenyewe na lazima ilipwe. How does the health sector contribute to the govt wallet? How much do you pay as NHIF?

From where I stand,nobody is against a salary increament for docs.Its the amounts they want that are crazy.....

However I sat with doc last evenning and he told me what they are asking for is this.

1.Entry level pay to move from 72k to 221k and the highest paid doc to move from 550k to circa 720k. That sounds reasonable to me.

2.They also want to have Docs housed within the health facilities to avoid driving far when on call or sleeping in the office.That too is reasonable in my view.
3.They also want to be under National government not counties...am not sure I fully appreciate the implications of each.

We can get out of this mess if they tone down and discuss but as it stands Ouma Oluga beliefs he is the later day Dedan Kimathi Wachiuri and will not burge.