Posted on July - 16 - 2011
Kenya People Dying Because of Lack of Anaesthetics
One person dies weekly in Kenya due to a shortage of anaesthetics and the situation is worse in slums and rural areas across the country.
In areas like Turkana in the Rift Valley, and the North Eastern, Eastern and Western provinces people are enduring painful operations without any anaesthetics at all. This is according to James Kamau, a civil society activist and the chief executive of the Kenya Treatment Access Movement, a local non- governmental organisation.
Kamau says anaesthetics are only found in Nairobi and provincial hospitals. “In our visits across Kenya, we have witnessed cases where many health facilities operate on people without using anaesthetics. Surely, we shouldn’t be letting (people), and particularly our children, undergo surgery without the use of anaesthetics?” he asks.
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