KMPDU calls for arrest of two people caught in viral video threatening nurses in Busia

The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has called for the arrest of two individuals captured on camera threatening healthcare workers at a hospital in Busia County.

In the video, the two people – a man and a woman – can be seen and heard harassing two nurses at the facility while hurling unprintable insults at them.

The woman, at some point, is seen scattering objects lying on one of the nurses’ desk to the floor and tossing some at her while calling her names.

She then threatens to call somebody she only identifies as “Ababu,” as her accomplice also takes out his phone and tells the other person on the line to; “harakisha ukuje hapa sai, we have an emergency here!”

They then leave after noticing that someone else in the room is recording them on camera.

Reports indicate that the two had taken another person, who was allegedly intoxicated, to the facility for treatment and demanded to be attended to ahead of other patients who were already also waiting for treatment.

They reportedly then caused a fit when they were informed that they could not be attended to, and are said to have even invoked the name of a senior government official.

KMPDU Secretary General Dr. Davji Atellah has since condemned the incident, further urging the relevant authorities to swoop in and bring them to book.

“This is rudimentary, illegal, and immoral. The attitude and action by politicians and their cronies to threaten healthcare workers at their place of work should be curtailed,” stated Dr. Atellah.

“The safety of healthcare workers is threatened in such facilties. The perpetrators of this heinous act should be brought to book urgently.”