Mbagathi Hospital nurses on the coronavirus isolation centre on a protective gear. PHOTO | NMG
Mbagathi Hospital nurses on the coronavirus isolation centre on a protective gear. PHOTO | NMG

Mbagathi Hospital nurses are on a go-slow.  The hospital holds the largest isolation centre for coronavirus (Covid-19) cases. The Nurses are citing lack of enough facilities to protect them against the coronavirus.



They also allege the government for sidelining them due to lack of adequate coronavirus training and little support to protect their families who they go home to every evening after working near patients that are potentially suffering from the virus.


On Friday last week, a nurse broke down in tears about her fears of going back home to her children amid concerns that she could infect them. The government, however, insists that it is ready to fight the virus to end.


The health workers are also lamenting that the hospitals are not in “crisis mode” yet in some wards since the other departments differ from the isolation wards, and do not have masks or any other protective gear. They said that it is very risky.


“Any person the nurses meet is a potential risk,” said Maurice Opetu, Deputy Secretary-general of the Kenya National Union of Nurses.


" When a patient is taken to the wards treated like a normal patient, later develops the signs, test positive while attended by a nurse without protective gear. Are we exposing them or not?, " Opetu said.

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