March 2019 voanews; The death rate among women undergoing a C-section to deliver a baby is about 50 times higher in Africa than in most wealthy nations, researchers said Friday. One in 200 women dies during or soon after a cesarean in a sampling of nearly 3,700 births across 22 …
Read More »KENYA:Hiring county employees on contract will reduce debt – Governor Kahiga
March TheStar; The hiring of nurses and other county government employees on contracts will lower the pension debt in both the counties and country, Nyeri Governor Mutahi Kahiga has said. Kahiga said governors and the National Government reached the decision so as to ensure counties do not run into pension debts. “Currently …
Read More »KENYA:Doctors in botched surgery reject panel’s ruling
February 2019 Business Daily;Two of three doctors involved in a botched breast surgery that led to the death of Ms June Wanza Mulupi are seeking court orders to stop the ongoing disciplinary process against them. Prof Stanley Ominde Khainga and Dr Martin Ajujo have moved to court claiming that the …
Read More »KENYA:Uhuru to nurses: There’s no money
February 2019 Business Daily;President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday appeared to have closed all avenues for dialogue with the striking nurses after he ruled out raising “the bloated and unsustainable” public wage bill further. Instead, the President restated the position of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) saying more attempts should …
Read More »KENYA: Alarm as 60 babies die at Kiambu Level Five Hospital
February 2019 DailyNation;On January 28 at around 9am, Ms Naomi Gathoni from Ikinu village in Githunguri was rushed to the Kiambu Level Five Hospital by her mother in-law, Rose Wangari, after she developed labour pains. Three days later, Ms Gathoni delivered a bouncing baby girl, weighing 3.8kg through caesarean section. …
Read More »KENYA:Nurses defy Uhuru order as CS fails to lure medics back to work
February 2019 thestar;Labour Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani on Friday failed to convince nurses to return to work with the medics accusing their employers of not honouring agreements. The nurses defied President Uhuru Kenyatta’s and governors’ order to resume work by Friday. Uhuru on Wednesday warned that those who failed to …
Read More »KENYA:Uhuru orders nurses to report to work by Friday or face dismissal
February 2019 thestar;President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered all nurses to report to work by February 15 or face dismissal by the county government and the Health ministry. Last week, the court suspended the nurses’ strike for 60 days. This was after the Council of Governors sought an injunction to enable both …
Read More »KENYA:CIC sees premiums rising unless doctors lower fees
February 2019 Business Daily;Medical insurers say premiums will most likely go up unless doctors cut fees in a sector where costs are rising and losses escalating. The comments come even as the industry grapples with fraud that has dogged the business for years with the main victims being policyholders who …
Read More »KENYA:Kebs blacklists two more food companies in aflatoxin purge
February 2019 Business Daily; The Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has suspended permits of two more firms whose peanut butter brands have also been found to have exceeded the maximum aflatoxin content, alongside ordering the recall of Jetlak Foods Limited’s Nuteez product. The agency says food manufacturers Triclover — producer …
Read More »KENYA:Nuteez peanut butter unfit for human consumption
January 2019 theStar; Nuteez peanut butter has been declared not fit for human consumption. In a certificate of analysis on Thursday, the government chemist Johansen Oduor said it exceeds the maximum required limit of aflatoxin. The peanut butter was found to be containing 28.08ppb aflotoxin, 18.08ppb more than the required limit. Peanuts are susceptible …
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