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April 2019 Business Daily; Drug makers that are members of the Kenya Association of Pharmaceutical Industry (Kapi) will not be allowed to give gifts or other forms of inducement to health practitioners in a bid to stem cases where medics only prescribe or dispense medicines from certain manufacturers. This follows …

July 2018 Dailynation;Given the frequent media reports of serious injury and deaths of patients caused by negligent health providers, Kenyans may be surprised to learn that only one doctor has been deregistered by the medical board in the past two decades. Data from the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board …

April 2018 IOL; The Gauteng health department needs to explain urgently why doctors are being short-paid and rectify this as soon as possible, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. Many doctors at Gauteng state hospitals had not been paid for overtime and had been told that the Gauteng health department …

December 2017 Standardmedia; Medical practitioners in all public health facilities have been ordered to close down their private clinics or face the sack. Governor Anne Waiguru has also directed pharmacists in public hospitals to work on 24-hour shift, to ensure patients are not referred to private chemists to buy medicine yet …

November 2017 straitstimes; Young doctors are feeling burnt-out, and this affects their ability to empathise with patients, a local study has found. Researchers surveyed nearly 500 medical residents across 34 specialities in three public hospitals, eight in 10 of whom said they felt emotionally exhausted, lacking in personal accomplishment, or …

October 2017 Standardmedia; The civil service is contending with an acute shortage of workers in major sectors, including health and engineering. A human resource skills audit based on the highest academic qualifications, area of specialisation, professional qualification, job, families and years of service conducted in 2015 revealed that the most affected sectors were health, engineering, …

August Ethiopianherald; Ethiopia, successfully executed National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) with a view to stepping up the health service accessibility, affordability and availability throughout the country. The program which is unprecedented in the medical history of the country conducted its first NRMP exam in selected exam hubs: Addis Ababa, Jimma, …

June 2017 BusinessDaily: Two Indians were on Monday deported after they were charged with two counts of illegal medical practice and being in Kenya illegally. The two, who were arrested following theBusiness Daily’s investigations into a fraudulent scheme involving the recruitment and referral of Kenyan patients to India in exchange for …

June 2017 Dailynation; Governors have said they will not approve a pay increase demanded by nurses – currently on day 10 of a nationwide strike – due to the large sum of money involved. The county bosses on Tuesday said the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) to pay the 26,000 nurses …

June 2017 Dailynation; Nurses have boycotted work in some parts of the county to protest what they say is a breach of a collective bargaining agreement they signed with the government. The Kenya National Union of Nurses (Knun) had directed all its 45,000 members to strike starting Monday morning until the …