NAIROBI – JULY 21, 2025
On Thursday, July 24th, KMPDU will launch a full-scale demonstration in response to the ongoing health crisis in Kiambu County. Effective immediately, we are withdrawing all interns posted to Kiambu and suspending further deployments. If this crisis remains unresolved, we will escalate the Kiambu strike into a nationwide industrial action.
Kiambu residents are suffering. Hospitals are short of doctors. Essential medicines are unavailable. Working conditions are inhumane. Instead of addressing these urgent issues, the county has weaponized public desperation, inciting patients against the very healthcare workers fighting for safe, dignified care.
This crisis is not unique to Kiambu, it is symptomatic of a national collapse in hospital security, staffing, drug supply, leadership, and governance.
Hospitals in Kenya are no longer safe spaces for care. They are hollowed-out institutions, stripped of staff, stripped of medicine, and stripped of security. In this vacuum, hospitals are becoming crime scenes.
In this vacuum, hospitals are becoming crime scenes.
The horrifying murder of a patient inside Kenyatta National Hospital, our national referral center, underscores this crisis. This was not merely a criminal act, it was the product of policy neglect, where systems built to save lives have been allowed to decay.
We are witnessing the normalization of vacancy, silence, and indifference.
When leaders look away, systemic failure takes root.
If these issues are not urgently addressed, lives will continue to be lost, not only to violence, but to drug stockouts, PPE shortages, doctor gaps, and delayed emergency care.
We will not stay silent. We will not allow Kenyans to suffer and die in abandoned wards while those in leadership look away.
We demand immediate, meaningful action. If this crisis is not resolved, the Kiambu strike will escalate into a nationwide industrial action.
We will speak, stand, and march, until every Kenyan can walk into a hospital and be guaranteed safety, care, and dignity.
