August 2018 Business Daily;Medical interns at the Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital are up in arms over an acute shortage of doctors that has left them overworked and without rest. Some of the overwhelmed medical interns have fled the facility leaving the hospital with only two interns. The complaints come …
Read More »KENYA:Kenya needs nearly 43,000 more medics: Health CS
March 2018 BusinessDaily; Kenya is currently grappling with a shortage of 42,800 health workers, a state of affairs that stands in the way of efforts to ensure universal healthcare. This is according to Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki, who said the number of medics is below the World Health Organization (WHO) …
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: Kenyan government grapples with huge staff shortfalls in critical sectors
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, …
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