The Doctors’ union has come out to refute claims by the government that the Covid-19 curve is flattening in the country.
Central Kenya Secretary-General of Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union Gor Goody urged the government to conduct a mortality audit to realize that the country is still losing many patients to Covid-19.
The Ministry of Health in its daily Covid-19 briefing has been indicating a decline in the infection rate of the virus.
Speaking to a local radio station, Goody said patients suffering from non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and the aged are contracting the disease and dying without being tested.
“Mortuaries are abnormally full, which means that the mortality rate has increased. But we are not getting the right statistics. We are only claiming that the curve is flattening. How is it flattening?” she posed.
Goody claims Kenya cannot undertake increase testing since there are not enough staff and resources.
That has resulted in a reduced number of cases announced daily by the government. Goody said Covid-19 results take around one to four weeks to come out after testing is done.
According to her, the number of Covid-19 cases in the country should be on the rise instead especially after the government lifted the restriction of movements in the country.
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In the fight against the disease, she said doctors are demotivated since they experience delayed salaries and are supplied with insufficient protective gear.
She said at the moment, health workers are using PPEs donated by the private sector adding that some of them are substandard.
“But we are expected to attend the sick with the substandard masks and personal protective equipment (PPE),” she said.
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