EAST AFRICAN NEWS

May 2017 BusinessDaily; Doctors have accused county public service boards (PSBs) of frustrating efforts to have their collective bargaining agreement with the devolved units signed. Whereas governors say they do not have a problem with signing the agreement, they have since passed the responsibility to their respective PSBs. The board members …

May 2017 Dailynation;The number of nurses at the Nakuru County Level Five Hospital has declined by 25 percent since the start of devolution. A Nakuru County Assembly Health report on the state of the hospital four years after devolution painted a grim picture and cast doubts on the future of …

May 2017 BusinessDaily; Bamburi Cement is set to offer more than 800 of its retailers a Sh150 million medical insurance scheme for inpatient and outpatient services. Dubbed ‘‘Afya ya NGUVU’’, the firm said it would reward resellers for loyalty, retention and growth of market share. Sanlam General Insurance is the …

May 2017 Dailynation; A doctors’ strike is in the offing if the national and county governments do not conclude the issues that are stalling the implementation of the March collective bargaining agreement. It is this CBA, alongside a recognition agreement, that ended the 100-day doctors’ strike on March 14. The Kenya …

May 2017 Standardmedia; More than 150,000 police officers may soon start paying more for medical cover to enable them to access medical loans. An internal memo seen by The Standard says the Utumishi Fund, which was established in 1995 and loans police officers up to Sh50,000, is no longer enough to …

May 2017 dabangasudan; Cholera continues to spread in Sudan’s eastern states, with more fatalities and infections reported across White Nile state, North Kordofan and Sennar. The federal authorities are beginning to respond, however Khartoum continues to refer to the outbreak as ‘acute watery diarrhoea’. The official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) …

May 2017 BusinessDaily;The government has activated national outbreak management and rapid response teams across the country to mitigate a cholera outbreak that has caused deaths in different parts of the country. As of last Sunday, four people had died in Nairobi, Vihiga, Murang’a and Kiambu counties with another 142 hospitalised …

May 2017 DailyNation; Kenya pitched for Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom to be the next head of the World Health Organisation because he has “connections” with people who have suffered many health disasters. In a speech to delegates attending the WHO General Assembly, Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed said Nairobi …

May 2017 DailyNation; Doctors told her she had brucellosis and ulcers and for months, 26-year-old Violet Judith Awuor took a cocktail of drugs. In one of her last Facebook posts, Awuor — known as Vio to friends — recounted her pain. “I was misdiagnosed very many times and that is …

May 2017 WHONews; In her final opening address to the World Health Assembly as Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan offered some advice to delegates “as you continue to shape the future of this Organization”. She called on the Health Assembly to make “reducing inequalities” a guiding ethical principle. “WHO stands for …