{"id":20319,"date":"2020-12-08T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T09:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=20319"},"modified":"2020-12-08T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T09:20:10","slug":"kenyan-doctor-dies-of-covid-19-without-five-months-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/08\/kenyan-doctor-dies-of-covid-19-without-five-months-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Doctor Dies Of COVID-19 Without Five Months Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 28-year-old Kenyan doctor has died of Covid-19 without having been paid for five months, the doctors union has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen Mogusu did not have a health insurance and his family had started an online fundraiser while he was admitted at the intensive care unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main doctors&#8217; union tweeted that it was &#8220;too steep a price for patriotism&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Devastating to announce the demise of 28 yr old Dr. Stephen Mogusu who has succumbed to COVID-19 complications At the time of his death he had not received his salary for 5 months,had no insurance &amp; his young family left with no compensation.Too steep a price for Patriotism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hl8WNYxxeH\">pic.twitter.com\/hl8WNYxxeH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KMPDU (@kmpdu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kmpdu\/status\/1335940327253938177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The governor for Machakos county, where Dr Mogusu worked, said he was employed under the national government&#8217;s universal health programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Improper that his employer, the national government, had not paid him for months. Doctors employed by my government have no salary arrears, receive allowances &amp; all have insurance cover,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrAlfredMutua\/status\/1335980333825724419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Governor Alfred Mutua tweeted.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A doctor, Mercy Korir, tweeted that Dr Mogusu&#8217;s last words to colleagues were, &#8220;bail out when you can because the mistreatment by government is not worth your life&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doctors in Kenya have complained about poor payment, lack of protective gear and lack of a comprehensive medical cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They had issued a strike notice that expired on Monday but was extended for two weeks to allow discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old Kenyan doctor has died of Covid-19 without having been paid for five months, the doctors union has announced. Stephen Mogusu did not have a health insurance and his family had started an online fundraiser while he was admitted at the intensive care unit. The main doctors&#8217; union tweeted that it was &#8220;too steep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":20320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[633,4320],"class_list":["post-20319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-covid-19","tag-kenya-doctors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20321,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20319\/revisions\/20321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}