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Covid: Most of country’s 200 critical care medics ‘in Nairobi’
Health & Science - By
Mercy Kahenda | April 5th 2021 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300
Patient sleeping in hospital bed. [Courtesy]
The country is facing challenges in handling the critically ill, worsened by the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic.
Kenya has about 200 anesthesiologists, 60 per cent of them in Nairobi, according to Kenya Society of Anesthesiologists chair Stephen Okelo.
“With the Covid-19 pandemic, patients are grappling for quality healthcare because we have acute shortage of experts, yet most patients require specialised care,” laments Dr Okelo. He says the shortage is also due to brain drain.