One of the most important things in a human survival is proper medical care. In Moi University, the dispensary is the major public health institution and it doesn’t look like it. It is located at the far end of school we can say it is just close to ‘mabs’ as to school of biological sciences. Moi university dispensary is such a disappointment as it doesn’t seem to give proper medical attention to its patients as it is expected to. We as students are being charged with medical fee of which we should get adequate treatment but it seems we are only paying for painkillers and condoms. Many cases of inactivity being heard forcing some people to rush over 5km to get emergency treatment.
It was just sometime back that a student was rushed to the institution and we had to lose him because the institution was not operating at night. Apparently it was past service hour. I thought such institutions operated 24/7 to handle such late night emergencies, or is it just my imaginations playing tricks on me? The dispensary, as much as it may be helpful to the eighth of the population, it should improve on its service delivery. This has made the students even though being charged medical fee; seek medical services from town more than 24km no matter the urgency the trust of the dispensary is all lost.
The institution rarely has doctors or any medical practitioners. Most of the time you have to wait for doctor to come in and at times the doctor can take hours to report to work. Surely free things are quite the struggle.
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