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Patients at risk as nurses, doctors rivalry plays out
Health & Science - By
Graham Kajilwa | December 16th 2020 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300
Protesting Clinical Officers make their way to Parliament Buildings to air their grievances on December 14, 2020. [Emmanuel Mochoge, Standard]
Is there sibling rivalry between doctors and other healthcare workers?
The saying among medics that ‘doctors do the hard work, while nurses do the dirty work’ has found itself in the ongoing healthcare workers’ strike, which the Government is yet to solve.
It has become a case of two bulls fighting leaving the grass to suffer, with clinicians and nurses appearing to have been left out in the push to save patients from more suffering.