Untold stories of bad experiences that forced doctors to go on strike
Doctors have taken to Twitter to share their bad experiences at work, some of which have led to the ongoing strike to demand for better remuneration and work environment.
Using the hashtag #MyBadDoctorExperience, the doctors have been telling their horrific encounters in the line of work ranging from almost contracting diseases to misuse of medical equipment or lack of.
The trend was top in the country on Monday afternoon with attempts by pro-government bloggers to make it about patients who have suffered in the hands of Kenyan doctors backfiring.
Doctors told their horrific experiences in poorly equipped wards and theatres that have forced them to either dig into their pockets or risk their lives to save a patient bare hands due to lack of gloves.
Here are some of the shared experiences by the doctors who are on the 44th day of strike:
#MyBadDoctorExperience I was doing my 34th hour of a busy call,pricked myself wth a needle i had pricked a HIV+ patient wth.PEP isn’t easy
— Erica Kakile (@erica_kakile) January 16, 2017
#ImplementCBA @Niptuckdoc: Imagine holding premature twin babies as they die in ur hands due to lack of incubators #MyBadDoctorExperience
— Leah Opere (@legrazz) January 16, 2017
#MyBadDoctorExperience losing an asthmatic child because the nebuliser wasn’t working and it was the only one in the hospital
— HK8 (@HKubai8) January 16, 2017
#MyBadDoctorExperience 1yr old baby critically ill. Meningitis. Mother couldn’t afford a CT scan. All doctors in the ward contributed for it
— FrankGitonga (@fkgitonga) January 16, 2017
After doing CS @ 2am I lose the baby cause the hospital had run out of oxygen. Yes cause of O2 It still haunts me. #MyBadDoctorExperience
— Health Transformer (@bin_abeid) January 16, 2017
#MyBadDoctorExperience is having the ward painted only when politicians r visiting#implementcba#lipakamatender
— LipaKamaTender (@PundaIlichoka) January 16, 2017
#MyBadDoctorExperience is having cancer patients pay for expensive chemo drugs instead of them being free#LipaKamaTender
— LipaKamaTender (@PundaIlichoka) January 16, 2017
#MyBadDoctorExperience or telling relatives of a malaria patient to go buy medicine at 3 am because there were no drugs at the facility
— Simeon Jowi (@Jowiseemeon) January 16, 2017
#mybaddoctorexperience Having to wait 1 week to make definitive diagnosis because patient cannot afford tests not available in the hospital
— Samya Mabruk (@MabrukSamya) January 16, 2017
#MyBadDoctorExperience when you have to decide which patient gets the oxygen cylinder because it just one and there are 3 pts #implementcba
— Nancy Anikin (@NancyAnikin) January 16, 2017
