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At least 15 nurses and an unknown number of other healthcare workers at Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi have reportedly contracted Covid-19.
This was revealed by the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) chairperson Boaz Onchari, who could not confirm the actual number of health workers infected with the virus at the facility.
“I cannot tell the accumulative number of health workers at the hospital who have tested positive. But I can speak for nurses and I can confirm that 15 of them have tested positive,” he said as quoted by Nairobi News.
Onchari further indicated that none of the 15 nurses is in critical condition and most of them are asymptomatic.
While expressing concerns over the positive cases at the largest maternity facility in the country, Onchari also confirmed that the union has so far lost two of its members to the disease.
On Monday, Kenya reported 189 new cases of Covid-19, raising the tally of infections to 10,294. The number of recoveries rose by 65 to 2,946.
At the same time, the country recorded its highest number of Covid-19 fatalities in a single day at 12, pushing the death toll to 197.
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This is just the beginning.
The Kenyan government does not support doctors, nurses or anything health related.
They loot money allocated to health care and hospitals.
There actions betray them.
This is the perfect time to for Kenyan doctors and nurses to go on strike and find jobs in other countries.
If they don’t do it now, they will continue working in hospitals with no medication, beds, bed sheets and food, forever.
Let the Kenya government import Cuban doctors to work there.
Dr are available from Shanghai more qualified than colonial ones.