First Week October 2024
Continued political battles in Kenya are monopolizing politician's time rather than more pressing issues of the economy and healthy care. The impeachment process of the depute passed in the parliament and will be voted on in the Senate this week. In the meantime, the economy continues to struggle with high cost of living leaving the poor to struggle to afford basic necessities. The hospitals have been left struggling due to slow release of funds from the Government. Tenwek is in a state of major strain from loss of back payments and now reduced daily income as patients are uninsured and lack funds to pay for services. Its a mess! Somehow God has continued to provide for the needy and this last week I saw many ENT patients and operated for 2.5 days. The patients have heart breaking stories of delayed care. So many suffering of treatable diseases. This week I performed several tonsillectomies, endoscopic sinus surgery, and several biopsies of the voice box for cancer. This i