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🗓️ 12 December 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Two doctors in Nairobi tell host Nuala McGovern why conditions for health workers in Nairobi are leading to calls for a strike. They include rising death rates, unpaid salaries and lack of a comprehensive medical insurance. We’ll also hear from two members of US President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid task force about combatting vaccine hesitancy after the United States recorded the highest daily death toll in the world so far. And as vaccines make people think about a possible return to normality, we hear from those who have had to move in with their parents during the pandemic
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0:00.0 | Hello I'm Nula McGovern on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS, conversations about |
0:07.0 | coronavirus, vaccines, frustration and hope. As America awaits a new COVID response from its president-elect, |
0:18.0 | we discuss how the new government might persuade people to trust a vaccine. |
0:23.6 | We'll also hear from those who have had to move back in |
0:26.3 | with their parents during this pandemic. |
0:28.6 | My mom somehow manages to hit every pot in the kitchen |
0:31.6 | while she's cooking, and I'll'll be like trying to be out of |
0:33.6 | call or in a meeting and it's difficult if there's a lot of noise in the background. |
0:37.6 | Plus my mom's office is right next to my bedroom where I work so I can hear her on her |
0:41.9 | calls through the wall. |
0:44.0 | Ugh. |
0:45.0 | Every country is dealing with COVID-19, some better than others admittedly, but even if you're lucky enough to live somewhere with relatively |
0:55.2 | low cases, chances are that doctors, nurses and care workers were among the early casualties |
1:02.0 | when the virus first appeared. |
1:04.0 | In Kenya, more than 2,000 healthcare providers have contracted the disease. |
1:10.0 | And this week, the name of another doctor to lose his life to COVID-19 was a top social media trend. |
1:17.0 | Fellow medics they pay their tributes and shared frustrations and concerns about their working conditions. |
1:24.0 | And these include the non-payment of salaries, |
1:26.7 | problems with health insurance, |
1:28.4 | and being forced to work with underlying health conditions, |
1:31.6 | which has led to the threat of going on strike. |
1:35.0 | I spoke to two doctors. They are Dr Nellie Bossere who runs a private clinic in the Kenyan |
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