The Kenya Health Union Caucus have asked the government to provide armed security to health facilities and medical personnel to ensure their safety at work.
The union says that their members' lives are constantly threatened in their line of duty due to lack of proper security and the attack on the Kitengela Sub County Hospital health personnel during Saba saba demonstrations just highlighted their plight for armed security.
While addressing the media at the Kitengela Sub County Hospital Peterson Wachira, the chairperson of the Health Union Caucus said that most of the doctors who were on duty during the attack are still traumatized though none of them was physically hurt as they were forced to camouflage as patients to avoid being attacked. "It is detestable that any Kenyan would want to harm the people that they would want to run to save them.
We are putting the government on notice that all health facilities especially those in hotspots must be provided with armed security from the Kenya Police not only during demonstrations but all the time," said Wachira.
