Universal Health 2030 Solving Complex Health System Problems
May 2017 DailyNation; Patients escaped from Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi in the 2015-2016 financial year without paying a total of Sh47.5 million. A report by Auditor-General Edward Ouko tabled in the National Assembly says the hospital’s management failed to explain how it intended to recover the loss. Auditors said …
Read More »KENYA:Sh800m mobile clinics still lying at NYS yard over a year later
May 2017 Dailynation; The controversial Sh800 million mobile container clinics were yesterday still lying idle at the National Youth Service camp in Miritini, Mombasa, more than a year since they were brought into the country. The 99 improvised clinics that featured in the Sh5 billion Afya House scandal have been …
Read More »KENYA:Fresh dispute erupts after medical interns hit by salaries reversal shock
May 2017 BusinessDaily; Medical interns posted in government hospitals across the country have protested against the reversal without explanation of salaries that were paid into their bank accounts last week. At least 335 out of a total 725 interns posted in different State hospitals are pointing fingers at their employer, …
Read More »KENYA: Mailu hopeful US will reverse aid suspension
May 2017 Businessdaily; A detailed report on use of funds has been submitted to the US government following withdrawal of billions of shillings from the health ministry in a move the State hopes will reverse a decision to suspend direct assistance. Health Secretary Dr Cleopa Mailu however denied Friday that …
Read More »KENYA: Report lays bare Kenya’s frail health sector
May 2017 DailyNation; Kenya only has only 2,089 specialist doctors, a new national survey of the country’s hospital staff has revealed. In 2015, there were 5,660 medical doctors, with 387 of them specialising in gynaecology. Experts in general surgery stood at 338 while internal medicine experts were 296. NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES …
Read More »KENYA: US government suspends direct assistance to Ministry of Health
May 2017 DailyNation; The US government has suspended USAid direct assistance to the Ministry of Health until unspecified conditions are met. USAid/Kenya and East Africa contracting officer Brian Woody says in a letter to the Kenyan government that activities such as salaries and wages, operations, domestic and international travel as …
Read More »KENYA: Agency now seeks power to police supplements
May 2017 BusinessDaily; Kenya’s nutrition regulator is set to get additional powers to police the country’s chaotic food and nutritional supplement industry that is currently dominated by quacks and pseudo-medics. Proposed amendments to the Nutritionists and Dieticians Act expand regulatory powers of the Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute (KNDI) to …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors’ strike begins another round of agony for patients
May 2017 DailyNation; Health services have been paralysed in all public hospitals in Nakuru County after doctors downed their tools demanding a five-month unpaid salary. And in Nyeri, a strike by nurses that started on May 1 has shut down services in public hospitals in the region, forcing patients to …
Read More »KENYA: Non-graduate clinical officers, nurses won’t perform surgeries
May 2017 DailyNation; Clinical officers and nurses who do not have a university degree will no longer perform surgeries, such as caesarean sections. The 2017 Task Sharing Guidelines launched on Thursday by the Ministry of Health also forbids non-graduate clinicians from amputating, removing hernias or performing other surgeries considered “specialised”, …
Read More »KENYA: The pomp at the launch of the Sh38 billion project to equip county hospitals with modern equipment is preserved in framed photos in the offices of many governors. But nearly a year after the smiles and the promise of better health services in the counties, the same governors have released shocking details of how the expensive machines are lying idle in hospitals. The big issue for the counties is that the project was rammed down the governors’ throats, without considering the special circumstances of different county governments.
May 2017 Standardmedia; The pomp at the launch of the Sh38 billion project to equip county hospitals with modern equipment is preserved in framed photos in the offices of many governors. But nearly a year after the smiles and the promise of better health services in the counties, the same …
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