In Kenya, nurses provide a bulk of direct patient care at all levels of health. These services include but not limited to preventive and curative. The nursing council of Kenya (NCK) is mandated to set standards for education and practice of nurses(healthcare workforce report).
Kenya has 30,243 nurses currently practising. This means that for every 10 000 people there are 8.3 nurses. This is way below the WHO recommended ratio. In Taita Taveta, only 5 nurses take care of 10 000 people. This not only leads to burnout but also the deterioration of services being offered.
With the small salaries and the huge responsibilities coupled with burnout being experienced by the nurses, it is now common to find many nurses leaving the country for other places with better enumeration. This further worsens a bad situation.
If the county governments sack the nurses as they have continued to threaten them, then the health sector risks gettinginto a total collapse and paralysis. The threat is not feasible. Instead, more nurses need to be trained and their terms of service and working conditions improved in order to retain this important workforce and reduce their flight.
Kenyans deserve quality healthcare. Its their fundamental rightas enshrined in the constitution. In order for Kenya to achieve its development agenda, it has to ensure that its population is healthy and with the ongoing strike we expect the health indicators to perform badly. The trend is expected to continue into the coming years.
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