When I posted about South Sudan’s 4 ventilators, 2 ICU beds and the irony of 5 vice presidents, many tool it for a joke. They have also set up a Covid19 coordination team chaired by Reik Machar. One of their main resolutions was to negotiate with Kenyan govt to allow them to transfer their top honchos suffering from “other illness” to Nairobi hospital! Nothing on how to help the citizens. Yesterday they tried to ship 8 senior citizens who have “other complications” to Nairobi. The Kenyan government got it right for the first time perhaps; they said a firm no. Get back to your country. Our medical infrastructure is strained too! Sort your own problems. To compound it all, and to the chagrin of many politicians in the South Sudan parliament, earlier this year, they voted to have each MP accorded a medical cover worth US dollars 25,000 p.a. Nairobi hospital was one of the top picks to benefit from the arrangement. They thought not of equipping even a single hospital in their country then, despite the fact that coronavirus was already in several parts of the globe! Chickens have come home to roost. Karma nowadays strikes so very quick.
I said Covid19 will birth a new dawn in Africa. Kudos GoK
Iv always said the faith I have in mutahi kagwe is unending. That guy knows what he is doing .
Those officials will find a way here. Kenya can’t risk severing diplomatic relations because of a few sick rich Sudanese thugs. Expect them at Nairobi hospital any time now. Those aren’t just any rich ordinary citizens, they double up as policy and lawmakers there. Denying them medication here is counterproductive. Anyone with basic knowledge in international relations will tell you that the smart thing is to allow those top honchos to seek treatment here.
They will come anyway. This is Kenya after all. Show a doctor a dollar he will treat you for anything.
I visited one of their hospitals (being run by Chinese) in November 2019 where a SS friend was being treated for Malaria and was quite shocked to learn that, it is one of their decent health facilities. It was really bad.
If their critical cases are not allowed to Kenya or any other neighbouring countries hospitals, they could die. So they’re likely to be allowed in for treatment, but then this is big wake up call for them to develop their own facilities.
@TrumanCapote you are partially right. Kenya has refused because we have several ICU facilities that are on standby for our own leaders at the top hospitals.
So it is not because of the ordinary Mwananchi.