Stronger Together for Better Healthcare In Kenya
The COVID-19 pandemic has without a doubt become one of the greatest teachers of our times globally and at local levels that working together yields better returns on efforts put in.
Whereas in
the past it has been each health service provider for themselves, collaboration
amongst providers has been key in averting deaths and worsening of health
conditions. Observing the situation in Kenya, Jayesh Saini, a Kenyan national
says that hospitals were reaching out to each for supplies such as oxygen,
blood, antibiotics, masks, gloves, and even ICU beds. He pointed out how
appeals on social media or other mediums of communication were acted upon with
such solidarity, all aimed at saving lives.
Kenyans are
known as resilient people who put their differences aside in times of calamity
and during this COVID-19 pandemic has been on another level. Individuals and
organisations have come out in large numbers to donate blood. For-profit
organisations have kept aside their profit margins to provide resources. For
example, the private oxygen suppliers provided the commodity they had to start
appealing for the cylinders to be returned so that they could refill and send
them where they are required. County governments that had not even considered
the importance or the value of having oxygen supplies in their counties
mobilized resources to ensure they could have access in case of increased cases
of the pandemic in their regions.
Jayesh
Saini perceived the reality that where there is a will to achieve something
there is always a way to do it and hopes that these lessons learned shall be
carried into the future towards improving the healthcare service delivery. He
pointed out that this is not because of pandemics or crises but because it is
the right thing to do to ensure healthcare services are available whenever they
are needed and within easy reach.
In this
regard, he hopes that the big players and the not-so-big players can have
opportunities to work together for the greater good, noting that there is so
much untapped potential and populations need venturing into. The big and
well-established players, should therefore not feel like the upcoming players
are there to take their long-standing clientele base but an expansion to
greater coverage.
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