Universal Health 2030 Solving Complex Health System Problems
December 2016 DailyNation; As the grandstanding, accusations and counter-accusations by government and striking doctors continued on Wednesday, life was nasty, short and brutish for some patients in public hospitals. At the Coast General hospital in Mombasa, a 65-year-old diabetic, Lucy Fumba, whose leg was amputated hours before the strike, died …
Read More »TANZANIA: Implementing Cashless Payments in Hospitals
December 2016 TheCitizen; In our healthcare system where out-of-pocket payment system is prevalent, it is very common for clients to use cash in making payments for the healthcare services. But as the adoption of information technology and communication (ICT) use in healthcare increases, cash payment systems are now becoming obsolete. …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors strike to go on as talks hit deadlock
December 2016 DailyNation; The government has failed, for the second day, to convince striking medics to get back to work. In what could worsen the suffering of the sick in public hospitals, Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu on Tuesday evening admitted the talks between the government, nurses and medical doctors …
Read More »KENYA: Patients left on their own as health workers boycott work
December 2016 DailyNation; Health workers have made good on their threat to boycott work to push the government to implement a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) they signed in June 2013. This is after the 21-day strike notice they issued on November 14 expired on Monday. Dr Fredrick Oluga, the Kenya …
Read More »KENYA: Two Die On Spot, Three Hurt in Ambulance Crash
December 2016 Dailynation; Two people died on Friday evening when a County ambulance collided head on with a Nissan patrol at Mikuyuni on Machakos-Mwala road. The driver of the ambulance and an attendant died on the spot while three occupants of the other vehicle escaped with injuries and were taken …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors to start strike in defiance of court order
December 2016 DailyNation; Nearly 5,000 doctors across the country are set to begin their strike on Monday in defiance of a temporary order by the Employment and Labour Relations Court on Friday stopping industrial action. They will this morning meet at the Public Service Club in Upper Hill, Nairobi, to …
Read More »KENYA: Health CS urges medics to resume work as negotiations continue
December 2016 DailyNation; Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu has urged health workers to resume their duties as the government tries to find a solution to their grievances. Dr Mailu, in a presser at Afya House in Nairobi, said the strike notice given by doctors was premature and pre-emptive. Because the …
Read More »Tanzania, Australia Specialists Perform Rare Surgery At Muhimbili National Hospital
November 2016 TheCitizen: Local specialists at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), in collaboration with surgeons from St John of God Hospital in Australia, yesterday performed a rare microvascular surgery on a 35-year-old man by transferring small muscles of blood vessels from the upper part of the leg to the lower part. …
Read More »SOUTH SUDAN: Starvation Threat Numbers Soar
November 2016 Aljazeera: An aid organisation in South Sudan has warned of severe food shortages, with the civil war spreading to rural areas of the country, cutting farmers’ access to their agricultural lands. The aid group CARE told Al Jazeera that if the armed conflict continues, as many as one …
Read More »UGANDA: Investing in Human Resource for Health Is Economically Productive
November 2016 TheMonitor; On August 13, during the 1st Grande Doctors’ Conference and Fellowship Dinner at Imperial Royale Hotel, the chief guest President Museveni put it clearly that deployed senior house officers offer a national service and should be paid; otherwise it is “modern day slavery”. Senior house officers are …
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