Too many patients, not enough beds. Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that the national hospital occupancy rate has gone up since the start of the coronavirus ...
The country’s biggest mental hospital, Mathari, is struggling with capacity issues that have left patients sharing beds and sleeping on the floor, the Auditor-General has revealed. The audit for ...
And patients described waiting two days or more for a bed in the hospital. Some staff said they did not feel safe raising concerns while some nurses “lived in fear of punishment from senior ...
For James Edwards, a 57-year-old patient with congestive heart failure ... Edwards spent eight days recovering at home rather than in a hospital bed and he believes he got the best of both ...