This is Why Citizen TV’s #TheBigQuestion is Trending on Twitter

There is no doubt that a majority of the Kenyan population get their medical services from public hospitals; having stated so, then you will definitely understand why so many Kenyans are busy on twitter expressing their frustrations concerning the looming strike by health practitioners across the counties.

Last night, Citizen TV’s The Big Question talk show hosted Meru’s Governor Peter Munya and the secretary general of Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union Dr. Victor Ng’ani to discuss the health sector and the impending challenges facing it. First things first, governor Munya never seized to amaze me when he boldly say there is no crisis in the health sector. Correct me if I am wrong but Mr. Governor can walk into any of the private hospital and comfortable afford to pay his bills; why do we even expect the governor to understand what is happening on the public hospitals.

Dr. Ng’ani elaborated that some doctors in some counties had not been paid since July a fact that leaves questions lingering in our minds how the governors would have reacted if the contrary had happened to them. The thing that is annoying Kenyans the most is how the governors wasted money with their trips abroad in the pretext of ‘learning’ instead of paying doctors. I do not know what the Governor would say to the family of a Mombasa parents who lost their child because of the strike that was in Mombasa county.

Enough said, catch the entire conversation here:

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