Kenya Medical Training College students are attending to patients at the Thika Level Five Hospital after the medics started a go slow on Wednesday morning.
According to the hospital’s chief nursing officer, Rosemary Mwangi, the medics are protesting against delayed salaries and failure by the county government of Kiambu to fulfill the promises it gave them during the last strike.
Mwangi said that the students, mostly those on internship, have been forced to work with the few clinical officers who are still on duty in the hospital to meet the needs by the patients flocking in the hospital.
She added that the in-patients are the most affected as the nurses who were supposed to give them their medicine this morning never turned up and thus they had to call the students to help in the same.
The medical superintendent at the facility, Dr Andrew Toro, has said that the situation is being contained by the clinical officers with the help of the students.
He called on the county government to ensure they meet the promises made to the medics saying it is making it hard for the public to access proper medical attention.
Speaking to the press from his office, Toro said that the county government had been given an ultimatum by the medics to deliver on the said promises which they claim have not been met.