The mother of a Busia-based doctor is among patients who have died as a result of lacking access to a medical practitioner during the health workers strike that is now in its third day.
Nasubo Khayoko, the mother of Dr Godfrey Oyiolo, died on Tuesday after she was discharged on Monday when the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists' Union (KMPDU) announced the strike.
After Khayoko’s discharge from Port Victoria Hospital in Bunyala sub-county, her condition deteriorated and she finally passed on after she was unable to get treatment in the public hospitals that had already been closed.
At the same hospital, a second patient, identified as Alimerida Onyiso died on Monday night after being discharged.
Residents in the area have pleaded with the government to quickly resolve the health workers’ strike given that a number of lives are in danger after the facility’s ICU was shut down and patients sent home.
The death toll of those who have died during the three-day strike is currently at 14.
Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu on Tuesday evening announced the talks between the government, nurses and medical doctors had failed to reach a solution, meaning that the strike would continue.
Meanwhile, health workers continue with their street demonstration, protesting the government’s lack of commitment to fulfil the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) they signed in 2013.
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