Medics should uphold professionalism to minimize risks, curb drugs loss

Medical practitioners no longer do their work as mandated. This has reduced the faith entrusted on them because of the vices that they commit against mankind. It is an issue that has become rampant and is almost becoming a norm. If doctors do not change how they handle their duties, then whom should patients turn to?

First, claims according to the Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi that doctors working in public hospitals are stealing drugs from government hospitals and selling them to private hospitals and chemists is inhumane and is a crime against humanity.

Secondly, the report about of a woman found with a surgical blade in her uterus 11 years after surgery and which has led her to being unable to conceive is a sad story. The two incidents are among a variety of vices that doctors these days commit against their patients. It could be that mistakes committed by doctors are as a result of carelessness. However, medical practice is a sensitive career and should be handled with extreme care. Doctors should do their jobs out of humanity and avoid focusing on the business part of the career because medicine involves human lives.

Stealing drugs from public hospitals to sell them in the private ones goes against the social pillar of the Vision 2030 which is to improve the quality of life for all Kenyans in sectors including the health sector. If we are to create a better world that is free of poverty and universal health care as stated in the vision, then everyone, including medical doctors should work into achieving that.