January 2019 Daily nation;Police in Migori have arrested a guard suspected to be part of a group of people that has been stealing medicine and equipment from Migori County Referral Hospital. Police officers, who were acting on a tip-off, recovered equipment worth Sh4 million which had been stolen from the …
Read More »KENYA: Better healthcare remains a dream as health centres lie idle
January 2018 Standardmedia;Kisii County has more than 30 unused health centres built through the Constituency Development Fund. Due to failure to recruit staff to run the facilities, some of the health centres have been lying idle for five years. The National Government Constituencies Development Fund Act, 2015, limited spending of …
Read More »KENYA:Crisis: Tharaka-Nithi public hospitals run out of medicine
December 2017 Dailynation; Patients in public health facilities in Tharaka-Nithi County have been forced to buy drugs in private pharmacies following an acute shortage of medicine. Speaking to the Nation at the Chuka County Referral Hospital on Monday, Ms Mary Kageni, said she was contemplating transferring her sick brother to …
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