The sorry state of slum hospitals recently launched by Uhuru

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Meria

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No drugs
The biggest challenge the facilities faced is the lack of basic drugs.
During the tour of the hospitals, it was evident that most patients flock to the facilities in the morning, however, they don't get all the services they need.
Mothers with newborns appear to be lucky as the immunizations and checkups for the babies have not been interfered with.
Some medicines like panadol are not available.
“Patients are disappointed when we tell them to go pharmacies outside to purchase drugs,” Osongo said.
NMS admitted the hospitals lacked some medicines since they had been relying on donations.
“The hospitals have not had drugs which is the situation across the county. Been relying on some few donations,” NMS said.
Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) Acting chief executive John Kabuchi told the Star that the Nairobi County government owes the agency more than Sh367 million.
“The Nairobi Metropolitan Service currently has an outstanding bill of Sh367,659,727.10. They last serviced their account on May 17, 2021,” he said in a statement.
According to Kemsa, NMS has not received any medical supplies order for the new hospitals, with the last supply made to more than 100 county health facilities on January 28, 2020.
“Kemsa has not received any order for the new hospitals. We have no valid local purchase orders from NMS. The one that came in the last financial year was not supplied due to the huge outstanding debt,” Kabuchi said.
No power back up
The slums are prone to electrical faults due to illegal connections within the area.
According to the health workers, the frequent outages have affected the service delivery, and they even stopped vaccinating residents.
“The vaccines require very low temperature," said the health worker.
NMS said they had budgeted for it in the next financial year.
“Currently, the hospitals don’t have any backup generators in case of power interruptions. The same has been budgeted for in the next Financial Year," said NMS.
https://www.the-star.co.ke/counties...of-slum-hospitals-recently-launched-by-uhuru/

@Gio niitie @mkurugenzi
 
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Na si hii maneno tuliongelelea jana na tukamaliza. We concluded that a hospital not having a perimeter fence, standby generator shouldn't stop doctors from offering services. Also the shortage of drugs is because of the 367M debt NMS owes KEMSA and this will be sorted in the next financial allocations kwa supplementary budget. The problems started siku za sonto when he would go shopping in dubai and france with your taxes. Mumee akili and choose the right leaders in aug.
 
mkurugenzi said:
Na si hii maneno tuliongelelea jana na tukamaliza. We concluded that a hospital not having a perimeter fence, standby generator shouldn't stop doctors from offering services.
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are you sick, tunasema hakuna dawa, patients are being turned away,
afadhali kuchagua huyu, he is honest
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Meria said:
whos reponsibility is it to make sure the hospitals have drugs?
umesoma hio article kweli
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You should see the cup as being 9/10 full and the issue is that some of the free drugs are not available. Everything if free and available apart from a few drugs which can easily be sorted by cash which is upto the NMS.
 
Meria said:
No drugs
The biggest challenge the facilities faced is the lack of basic drugs.
During the tour of the hospitals, it was evident that most patients flock to the facilities in the morning, however, they don't get all the services they need.
Mothers with newborns appear to be lucky as the immunizations and checkups for the babies have not been interfered with.
Some medicines like panadol are not available.
“Patients are disappointed when we tell them to go pharmacies outside to purchase drugs,” Osongo said.
NMS admitted the hospitals lacked some medicines since they had been relying on donations.
“The hospitals have not had drugs which is the situation across the county. Been relying on some few donations,” NMS said.
Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) Acting chief executive John Kabuchi told the Star that the Nairobi County government owes the agency more than Sh367 million.
“The Nairobi Metropolitan Service currently has an outstanding bill of Sh367,659,727.10. They last serviced their account on May 17, 2021,” he said in a statement.
According to Kemsa, NMS has not received any medical supplies order for the new hospitals, with the last supply made to more than 100 county health facilities on January 28, 2020.
“Kemsa has not received any order for the new hospitals. We have no valid local purchase orders from NMS. The one that came in the last financial year was not supplied due to the huge outstanding debt,” Kabuchi said.
No power back up
The slums are prone to electrical faults due to illegal connections within the area.
According to the health workers, the frequent outages have affected the service delivery, and they even stopped vaccinating residents.
“The vaccines require very low temperature," said the health worker.
NMS said they had budgeted for it in the next financial year.
“Currently, the hospitals don’t have any backup generators in case of power interruptions. The same has been budgeted for in the next Financial Year," said NMS.
https://www.the-star.co.ke/counties...of-slum-hospitals-recently-launched-by-uhuru/

@Gio niitie @mkurugenzi
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#FAtToad🐸 amefanya kazi buana
 
mkurugenzi said:
Na si hii maneno tuliongelelea jana na tukamaliza. We concluded that a hospital not having a perimeter fence, standby generator shouldn't stop doctors from offering services. Also the shortage of drugs is because of the 367M debt NMS owes KEMSA and this will be sorted in the next financial allocations kwa supplementary budget. The problems started siku za sonto when he would go shopping in dubai and france with your taxes. Mumee akili and choose the right leaders in aug.
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I agree with you on choosing the right leaders. That's a patriotic duty.
 
Meria said:
whos reponsibility is it to make sure the hospitals have drugs?
umesoma hio article kweli
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First things first @Meria. Before you can stock a kitchen, supermarket, school or a hospital, as in this case, you must build the crucial infrastructure.
Hardware must be in place before you can install the software.
Let us not be too critical as to fail to give credit where it is due. Where were these ardent critics when these buildings were not erected and only crumbling buildings dotted these sites?

This is not to excuse mediocrity in service delivery and hopefully all efforts should be directed to making these hospitals work optimally to ease health challenges in their catchments.
 
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