For ordinary Kenyans, the rising cost of basic commodities has made it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.
The increased prices of food, fuel, and housing have led to a decrease in the quality and quantity of goods and services that people can afford.
The cost of living crisis has forced individuals and families to reevaluate their spending habits, prioritize essential needs, and make difficult financial decisions.
This has further led to a sharp increase in financial stress and hardship, especially for unemployed graduates who have resorted to robbery as the only remaining option.
For instance, a gang is slowly emerging at health facilities targeting mainly nurses and patients to make ends meet.
Already, Kenya’s biggest referral Hospital Kenyatta National Hospital has been affected.
A section of nurses and patients at KNH are complaining about what they say is a lack of security at the health facility.
Reports making rounds on social media platforms claim a well-organized gang has emerged at the hospital precincts targeting patients and nurses.
The thugs who are armed with crude weapons are mainly targeting smartphones.
For instance, Addy Wambui, a nurse at the hospital was attacked by armed robbers who made away with her iPhone 14 right in her operating room.
“A doctor at Kenyatta National Hospital whose name is Addy Wambui says thugs violently snatched her iPhone 14 right outside her operating room. Robbers are in hospital corridors,” a Kenyan by the name Juma G.
Another patient who went to the hospital to seek medical services said that he lost his phone on the hospital’s stairs.
“I have a patient there and my friend’s phone was snatched at a knife point along the stairs,” another Kenyan wrote in the comment section.
