When all that policy makers can do is read hardwood posts and think he's serious, then we have a problem.

Kweli they think doctors are like the onions we import from Tanzania?

Yes. Tired as well of the unending back and forth. The government and county governments should stop hee haw-ing, find their collective balls and pull the trigger. One party is going to burn and my morbid curiosity wants to see which.

You assume too much incorrectly. Not all doctors had joined this bandwagon of suffering. Not all doctors have demonized themselves. Not all agree that all doctors are rotten money hungry bones - only Ouma Oluga could be .... Many doctors are actually very likeable and humble people who talk and interact with people nicely in a down to earth fashion.

Health care in Kenya has been under those very same health professionals. It maybe superficial to think politicians manage health care. If it has been bad, the health care professionals are to be asked.

I for one have not taken this side am on because someone is against it or someone is for it. It is what I feel and know is right.

Calculating the number of physicians per unit population is a pretty standard way of assessing whether a country has an optimal number of doctors to serve it's population with regard to services that only doctors provide. The more accurate way is to assess each of the clinical groups separately...So number of clinical officers/nurses/community health workers etc per unit population.

The various levels of service that you describe are excellent for a universal health care system. Doctors in such a systems get paid a living wage that is not above other civil servants.

Our problem is that we are trying to introduce a half-assed for profit component into the picture and expecting some health professionals to stay at the civil servant level, while others go into the private sector. If we do this, then market forces will come into play and health professionals (including CO's and nurses) will want in on the profit pie. Furthermore, the for-profit entities will siphon off the public monies (read NHIF) that are supposed to maintain the public health sector.

We either stay with the universal health model or the fully capitalistic model. Trying to blend them cannot end well..

I foresee a situation where if other health professionals like nurses and COs raise a demand next, they will be treated well and given what they want without much fuss. All to rub in for the KMPDU. Of course they will have learnt from KMPDU approach how not to do things. It may happen, it may not, I do not know.