Why hospitals need to change attitudes on bodaboda victims

A wreckage of a motorcycle lies on the road after an accident. Often times, victims of accidents involving motorycle taxis receive little or no attention in medical facilties. This needs to change. PHOTO | FILE

What you need to know:

  • During the electioneering period, you can see politicians attaching so much importance to the riders as they need their votes. After Members of Parliament and others come to power, the vital group is left on its own to continue with their daily hustles
  • Today I would like us to consider one aspect of the riders that makes public hospitals look less human. Riders are constantly in danger of being involved in accidents out of their carelessness or the carelessness of others