Kenya: Doublespeak On Devolution of Health Services Insincere

18 December 2013
opinion

Medical practitioners who have sworn to uphold the Hippocratic Oath, reaffirming that life is worth living, and that they shall ensure "utmost respect for human life from its beginning" have a duty to safeguard life. However, the moving accounts in the media that deaths are being recorded daily in public hospitals across the country are mind-numbing, to put it politely.

That medics have legitimate grievances is a moot point for those screaming for attention in hospital. That government is tone deaf to their pleas for dialogue is an argument lost to the relatives of patients who have been denied medical attention at the altar of the Minotaur that devolution has become.

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