The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ordered the arrest and prosecution of a male suspect caught on tape harassing Busia hospital workers.
The unidentified male had accompanied Vanessa Ogema to Port Victoria Hospital on January 3 when the incident occured.
Ms Ogema was on Monday arraigned and charged with assault, inflicting malicious injury to property and issuing threats of damage to individuals employed within the public service.
She was arraigned earlier than Port Victoria regulation court docket the place she denied the costs and was launched on bond of Sh200,000 with surety of comparable quantity, with out an possibility for money bail.
She surrendered to the police on Sunday.
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This got here after being summoned for assertion recording.
The girl was seen inflicting chaos by throwing information on the ground and hitting a desk whereas shouting on the hospital workers and threatening to name Sports activities CS Ababu Namwamba.
When the problem went public, it induced anger forcing the CS to problem a press release to distance himself from the identical.
The matter agitated members of the general public. Regular operations on the Port Victoria sub-county hospital in Busia County had been on Friday January 5 paralyzed as nurses went on strike protesting the assault.
Households had been compelled to switch their sufferers to different hospitals because the nurses downed their instruments to protest the January 2, 2024 incident the place Ogema and her colleague demanded swift supply of healthcare companies for his or her relative.
Kenya Nationwide Union of Nurses Secretary Common Seth Panyako condemned the incident.
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The nurses’ physique demanded stern motion taken towards the 2 people who find themselves seen on recorded video harassing the employee.
Busia County authorities mentioned in a press release hospital property was destroyed within the course of, together with an oxygen concentrator.
Well being Cupboard Secretary Susan Nakhumicha too condemned the incident and added the perpetrators of such acts will face the complete pressure of the regulation.
“Acts of violence towards our healthcare employees usually are not solely reprehensible however insupportable. Healthcare employees deserve our utmost respect as they’re the spine of our healthcare system. They work tirelessly – typically below difficult situations to make sure the well-being of all residents throughout completely different hospital ranges,†she mentioned.
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