From: Paul Nyandoto

Humans,

We Kenyans; when will we agree that we are human beings and deserve a descent life? I think that since the election is next year it is now the best chance to evaluate all these present leaders and rally behind those with positive development records. People do not eat words, neither do we eat populist, we do not need also criminals to rule us.

I am also happy to see our minister of health now back and well after a long treatment course. I am also happy with his present attitude about renewing the medical services. BUT have you sat down and think that what would have happened to the already suffering or the future Kenyans suffering from cancer disease if he Mr. Nyongo was not suffering from cancer?. Would he still be a hero as some of many my country people have called him?. Would Mr. Nyongo would have had this same dream to infiltrate our medical service to get that it is outdated or what? I leave that question to each and every one of you to answer.

Another point i do want to stress is what Mr.Ajus Cirilus have touched about the private medical system in kenya and public sector. I personally do not see this as a problem if there are regulation to follow. In Kenya the same doctors who work in let say Kenyatta are also the ones working in the private sector. I see in Finland here there are also private and public health service, and the government (KELA) do compensate a patient to a certain level when a patient in treated in the private sector and the government is very much active in following the correct diagnosis and health guide rule placed down by the medical board and the ministry of health. At the moment it is approximated that 30% of Finnish nationals use the private sector while 70% uses the public sector. But the government is very strict on dangerous disease which can cause death. Like cancer disease in Finland the public sectors are having the best facilities and are constantly maintained to meet the best standard. Heart diseases or even heart transplant are best placed in public sectors. So even if there are private sectors they are not a threat to the public sector, in fact today the public sectors are having much better facilities to handle any diseases in Finland, while private sector are constantly having financial difficulties and very restricted facilities for care.

We Kenyans are the ones to define what we want; you want capitalism where man eat man you get it. But even in capitalism thieves, grabbers are punished. So what type of system do we have in Kenya today, since our thieves and grabbers of tax-payers money are not punished? I do not think that it is capitalism. I just think that it is a jungle rule, where monkeys fight among each other for a banana and the well placed gets it all while the weak are left to die. Or we are going the George Orwell`s type: animal farm; where all animals are equal but others are more equal than others?

Kenya can renew her health system very quickly, but only if there is a good plan and well respected regulations. Kenya can get a lot of help if it does mean business, the joking system it had played since 1963 up to day does not motivate any one. Can the government just start from the streets: drugs being sold in the matatus, market places should be known and their expiring dates and their suppliers and the their chemical constituents. I am afraid that some of my country men might be eating chemicals causing cancer without even knowing.

Paul Nyandoto