Kenyan wife awaiting death as a result of lack of basic drugs (Photo)

The seven 37-year-old girls and boys, all younger than 15, surround her narrow bed. They need their mother to be fine, reports “Alzeera”, broadcast Periscope.

Adan's entire property is made up of a single - bedroom house built from mud and an iron roof.

The drought killed most of her livestock; she has no food to feed her children. Her husband left home a few weeks ago with his only remaining livestock looking for pasture away from his homeland.

And now, the nurses' strike that started four months ago has complicated its life challenges in a harsh climate with weak infrastructure.

I started bleeding last Monday,”

I was standing at home doing my homework, and suddenly he saw a grain of blood coming from my feet, bleeding was so severe that I lost consciousness. My children rushed and invited neighbors to help me”.

A nurse in Kenya has a low salary where she earns $200 a month.

As Kenya prepares for other presidential elections Thursday, the issue of ending the nurses' strike has not been thoroughly addressed.

Neither President Uhuru Kenyatta nor opposition leader Rajla Odinga has promised to revive the health sector.

When the strike began in June of this year, I was planning to visit a clinic because I had lost my menstrual cycle for almost two years, unfortunately, nurses went on strike and had no place to ask for help”, Adani says with tears in her eyes.

The “Ambulanca that I visited to treat my illness told me it cost 1,500 syringes ($ 14.50). They put me at one point and put a piece of cotton wool in my vagina to help control the bleeding. The ambulance doesn't have the money to rent a car, so I wait to die. I have no help from anyone”, Adan says.

Medical records indicate that Adan could have a tumor on the cervix, saying she needed further examination and urgent blood transfusion.

I wish the government would finish the strike

As Peter Marete walks through empty corridors, a clinical officer at the Merti Health Centre confirms “Al Jazeera” that most hospital services will be stopped in June.

He participates in the most urgent cases with the help of only two collaborators a lab technician and an administrative staff.

“As you can see, the situation is very bad here”, he says. These kids have come too far with their parents”.

The nurses usually give injections.

Services such as vaccines, family planning, and maternity activity have been shut down in its object.

This nurse strike will have a huge impact on these services, because many women are dying in their homes as a result of lack of vaccination, but for children it is a similar tragedy. I want the government to end this strike immediately because people here have no alternative” he says.

More than 25,000 nurses from the Kenya National Nurses Community demanded in June from the government to sign a collective negotiation agreement (CBA), but they refused.

The CBA included demands for compensation of equitable and health risks, which officials said would burden the taxpayers.

Instead of signing CBA, it was politicised. The prolonged strike is because the government has been insincere”, says Seth Panyako, secretary general of the Kenya National Nurses Union./Periscopi/