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COVID-19 patients quarantined at a Mumias health facility in Kakamega County on Thursday, November 5 went on hunger strike decrying being neglected by the medics at the hospital.
Most of the patients are related, and were traced and placed under mandatory quarantine after one of their relatives died of COVID-19 a week ago.
“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,” said one of the patients.
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“As if suffocating under neglect were not enough, we have been forced to clean the wards by ourselves,” said another patient.
To express their disappointment, the patients, on Thursday, November 5 refused to take their meals, saying they would proceed on hunger strike until their complaints are addressed.
The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) secretary in Kakamega County, Renson Bulunya, dismissed the patients’ allegations, saying the nurses who are looking after the COVID-19 patients at the Mumias facility have been professional in their conduct.
Bulunya, who is also undergoing treatment for COVID-19, however, said a shortage of doctors at the Mumias facility was to blame for the lack of medical attention on the patients.
