EAST AFRICAN NEWS

January 2016 DailyNation; Nurses in Tharaka-Nithi County have downed their tools demanding to be paid their December salaries and remittance of statutory deductions. This is the 17th time the county’s health workers have gone on strike since the inception of devolution. In a press release, Kenya National Union of Nurses …

January 2017  CapitalFM; Striking doctors have dared Governors to make good their threat to sack them this Wednesday, vowing that they will not go back to work until the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed in 2013 is implemented. Through the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), the medics …

January 2017 TheMonitor; Three former senior accountants of Mubende Referral Hospital have been sent to jail and ordered to refund Shs200m to the government. The Anti-Corruption Court sentenced the former Senior Accountant, Mr Henry Okori Okumu to two years’ imprisonment, Mr Kasangaki Aston Kyomya, principal accounts assistant to three years …

Janury 2017 DailyNews;The government is finalising essential procedures for harmonising medical treatment costs in both private and public hospitals as one of the key measures to ensure fair and quality in offering medical services. The Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Health, Community, Development, Gender, Elders and Children, Dr …

January 2017 TheMonitor; A doctor spent the better half of 2015 on remand in Luzira prison after being transferred from an upcountry prison. However, on December 17, 2015 a magistrate acquitted the doctor of all the three charges that the Director of Public Prosecutions had indicted the doctor of. The …

January 2017 DailyNation; Governors have told doctors to return to work by tomorrow or face disciplinary action. The Council of Governors (CoG) said yesterday doctors who defy the directive will get letters to show cause why they should not be sacked. Meru Governor and CoG chair Peter Munya told the …

January 2017 CapitalFM; Striking doctors have rejected a Sh4 billion offer by the government saying that the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed in 2013 forms the basis of their industrial action. Speaking after a National Advisory Council meeting Friday morning, the doctors stated that the issue of discussion is neither …

January 2016 DWNews; There are only a few public hospitals within the informal settlement of Embakasi in Nairobi County so many pregnant women face private health care bills. A mobile phone and a pre-payments plan can help. During a pregnancy, women have to pay between 10,000 and 15,000 Kenyan shillings …

January 2016 DailyNation; Governors are set to lose control of Sh13 billion health grants from the Treasury after Parliament approved their transfer to the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) and a yet to be established health fund. The county bosses will lose Sh3.4 billion for free maternal healthcare to NHIF …

January 2017 DailyNation; A mission hospital in Meru has reached out to the Kenya Red Cross and other health sector players to assist in treating patients as the doctors’ strike persists. Sister Mary Nkatha, St Theresa Hospital’s administrator, said managers are looking for people to help attend to the many …