How staff shortages are disrupting care in Kenya's hospitals

[Benard Orwongo, Standard] Patients continue to suffer the effects of challenges facing Kenya’s health sector, as stakeholders blame both the national and county governments for failing to give healthcare enough attention despite its importance.

According to Okoth, one of the main problems is that the government has failed to employ enough trained health workers after they complete their internships, despite training institutions continuing to produce qualified health workers “Training institutions are doing their best to train people to standard across all cadres, but the trained personnel are not being absorbed to help in the medical field,” said Okoth.“If county governments are given more resources, they can do better than what the national government has done in the health sector,” he said.