Kenya medical Laws are obsolete, archaic and Colonial. They are 38 year old Laws protracted, miserably and deficient

George Got Akuno @BonifaceMwangi

Am a doctor of 9 yrs experience, actively practicing. I wish you could give me a small hearing so that I outline a few issues:

1. Kenyan Health Sector is in problems.

The Medical Board in Kenya is a product of Cap 253 of 1977! Boss, in 1977 Jomo Kenyatta was the President, Dr. Njoroge Mungai was probably the only Kenyan who had private health clinics but even those were being Nationalised.

The Ministry of Health was providing all health services: For Free!

2. The Health Sector today in 2015 has about 25 professional & quasi Professional players rendering various services:

Of all this, Cap 253 only applies to TWO: 

Graduate Medical Doctors & Graduate Dental Surgeons whose number in the Country is slightly less than 9000 by registration as at May 2015. Many however do not practice anymore.

What of the other over 23 players who regulates them? Your guess is as good as mine, many of the ROAM THE LAND UNREGULATED!

Brother, we are in trouble, over 85% of complaints filed with the Medical Board die at the Preliminary enquiry stage the moment the Board realizes that the Complaints Do Not Touch on a Graduate Medical Doctor or Dental Surgeon! Why because the Cap 253 of 1977 restricts MPDB TO THOSE TWO!

3. Brother Mwangi, how are laws made in Kenya?

A Government Department can propose Bills to Parliament for enactment.

Private MPs can also do the same.

The situation in Kenya is a sad reminder that Government and by extension the State Ministry of Health died when Jomo Kenyatta died! Sad but true, how come Jomo's Minister For Health gave us the 1977 Law, what of the many Health Ministers who have served under Moi, Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta, are they too blind to see the Legal lacuna here?

No, they are not blind, they are initiated into a cartel hell bent on making the Kenyan Health sector a failed entity so that looters and merchants of death can roam unchecked.

If we can launch a campaign to wake the MINISTRY OF HEALTH UP TO THE REALITY THAT PART OF THEIR JOB IS TO PROPOSE TO PARLIAMENT CHANGES IN THE LAW TO STRENGTHEN SECTOR REGULATION TO PROTECT THE LIVES OF KENYANS I WILL SIGN YOUR PETITION, I WILL SUPPORT YOU!