Covid-19 patients recently admitted at the Mumias Health Center in Kakamega went on a hunger strike to protest what they referred to as hard labour.
The patients were admitted at the hospital on a compulsory self-quarantine after one of their family members died of a Covid-19-related complication.
They blamed the hospital for forcing them to perform tasks like cleaning up their wards and accused the hospital of not offering them appropriate care despite of their condition.
“We were just brought and dumped here without any health officers attending to us. Besides being put under antibiotic drugs, we have not received any other form of treatment, and we fear our conditions could worsen,” one of the patients said.
The patients have promised to maintain their hunger strike until their demands are met.
Renson Bulunya, the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) secretary in Kakamega County, dismissed the patients’ allegations, saying the nurses looking after the Covid-19 patients at the Mumias facility are professionals.
Bulunya added that the lack of proper medical attention to patients at the facility is due to the shortage of doctors at the hospital.
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