Queen’s Hospital doctors’ strike paralyses health services
Medical services remained paralysed at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre, one of Malawi’s biggest referral hospitals, as doctors and nurses are continuing their sit- in strike.
The frontline healthcare workers downed their tools last week demanding government to address their grievances especially ensuring that they have Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) in the wake of Covid-19, the strands of coronavirus disease.
Talks between doctors and the government, ended in stalemate following failure to provide PPEs.
Now all patients are being referred to district hospitals.
The facility is as good as closed even pregnant women are also being turned away.
Hospital director Samson Mdolo said they are still persuading the workers to resolve the stalemate.
“We are still talking. So far so good. I am optimistic the stalemate will be resolved soon,” Mdolo said.
The standoff has left the health care system in Blantyre paralysed, with reports of patients dying as a result.
“We want the government to address our issues and concerns,” one of the doctors told Nyasa Times on Sunday.
She urged the Government to show more commitment to addressing doctors concerns by providing them with tools and protective gear to work with amidst Covid-19 and by availing the patients the medicines.
Uku ndiye kufoila Mr APM. Where are your priorities?
Selfish doctors. Selfish nurses. Your love for money is now perfectly exposed. Shame shame. You pose like angels when in fact you are wolves in sheep’s skin. No wonder ma nurse ambili mabanja alibe. Mwano too much.
Akulu inu musathe mau nurse mudzamufuna and chimene akunena anthuwa inutu simukuchimvetsa bwinobwino ayi.
Chenjezo ku Bamako kwachula anthu amene alive luso.1.osamulangiza president the consequences of impact of announcing lock down your focus was on delay on elections what a grave mistake.2.Instead of tackling the issue OF covid with sober mind.shame.3.instead of improving preparing health systems and staff you focused on giving security more money as if there is war.put resources in hospitals give allowances to doctors nurses and protective materials mr. President people are dying in hospitals in the country visit Kamuzu central hospital today yourself if iam lying even the so called cadets on this forum go in hospitals and tell your… Read more »
They ve a point. Even contruction worker is provided with PPE. Saving lives does not mean lossing urs.
Where is peter wa muthalika pliz?????? The president is sleeping on the job
PPE is so essential if we’re to encourage the medics to provide healthcare services to the nation.
No medic wants to be part of the statistics of FATALITIES due to negligence.
Live up to the promise and they’ll do their part 🇲🇼🐓🔥
Peter’s sleep-walking is going to get a lot of people dying from non Covid19 conditions due to his inability to proactively deal with incidents of this nature at this critical time.
Will the stupid and brainless DPP cadets blame this strike on the Tumbuka judges or their clueless and sleepy DPP leadership?
And yet we have money for hiring South African lawyers for the elections appeal case. We are a country of jokers!
Shame on u doctors the world is crying for such services Malawi govt let them rot in the strike mode tey are not worth the call
Foolish man aaaa not man but monkey. Now I know why Livingstone used to call you people monkeys because that’s what you really are. Your brothers and sisters are dying for careless leadership and you say like Doctors rot in strike mode. You think these people are stupid. They take the little in hospitals to care for themselves while you suffer. Just like Bingu died because there was no resuscitation medicine in a public hospital. Wait until your relatives get seek. Then you may appreciate the problem.
Most of the health workers (nurses in particular) are just pure evil. this has nothing to do with corona virus. Moreover, we are told thee in no patient with corona virus in our hospitals. PURE EVIL,
You are writing nonsense. Mutharika the First was irrevocable dead when his corpse was taken into public hospital KCH. In fact, he was irrevocably dead by the time his personal doctor attended to him.
Iwe samala poyankhula
Sad. What kind of country is malawi which can not prioritize essential services?
Koma makosana, health workers have a noble calling and they work. What they get is not equal to what they do. Let us appreciate and support them. Actually, if there was a profession deserving better package ndi amenewa, seconded by teachers.