A section of doctors demonstrate during a past strike. [Photo/citizentv.co.ke]
Medics in Murang’a County Hospital risk being dismissed from their duties.
This follows claims that they have been asking patients who visit the health facility to go away alleging the county has not provided medicines.
According to the Joseph Mbai, the county’s Health Chief Officer, patients have complained for being told to purchase drugs, gloves, cotton wool, scalpels and scissors from private pharmacies.
A parent who had visited the hospital on Monday to have his son treated, almost shed tears when he was send away.
The Star reports the parent was told by the health staffs Governor Mwangi Waria opted to buy maize seed and fertiliser for farmers instead of purchasing supplies for the hospitals.
“They told me to go to a certain pharmacy in Murang’a town to buy gloves, scissors and everything they would require to treat my son,” the man is quoted by the daily.
Another relative of a patient claimed that she was told drugs were not available in the facility because they elected Wairia as their governor.
They said we voted for Governor Mwangi Wairia, which is why the hospital was without medication as he had used the hospital’s funds to buy maize seeds,” the relative said.
Mbai noted it was unethical for the medics to fail to treat patients who seek their services just because of their political affiliations.