Tag Archives: Health workers

May 2020 TheStar; About 20,000 jobs are at risk in the healthcare sector due to financial distress in addition to pay cuts being implemented, a report by the Kenya Private Sector Alliance shows. There have been big losses in health-related SMEs, including smaller hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres. The report …

May 2020 BusinessDaily; Twenty Kenyan healthcare workers have tested positive for the coronavirus in the past two weeks, bringing the total number of the key frontline personnel in the country’s Covid-19 fight to 54 or 3.3 percent of the 1,618 confirmed cases to date. Health director-general Patrick Amoth, however, said …

May 2020 DailyNation; As the Covid-19 pandemic rages, many private hospitals are grappling with a different side-effect – financial problems. The growing costs and shrinking revenues are now forcing hospitals to ask their employees to take a pay cut. The issue has caused a push and pull between the health …

May 2020 BusinessDaily; About 34 frontline healthcare workers have tested positive for coronavirus, the Health ministry has said even as Kenya confirmed 14 new cases on Friday. The new Covid-19 cases bring the total national tally to 621. Ministry of Health Director General Dr Patrick Amoth said the healthcare workers, …

April 2020 theStar; At least 69,975 health professionals applied for the posts advertised by the government to increase the workforce to respond to coronavirus. The Public Service Commission called for the listing of 5,550 health workers to fill various cadres. They include 500 registered clinical officers; at least 2,000 registered …

March 2020 theVerge; A shortage of masks, gloves, and other protective gear “is putting lives at risk from the new coronavirus and other infectious diseases” warned the World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement on Tuesday. A frightened public has been buying up masks and other equipment, leaving limited supplies for …

March 2020 NYTimes; Every workday, Al-Hakim arrives at one of London’s largest public hospitals for a shift as a cleaner, earning little more than minimum wage even though his latest job includes disinfecting rooms reserved for suspected coronavirus patients. He isn’t certain what he fears most: being exposed to the …

July 2019 theStar;How will you react if notified that your sexual partner has tested HIV positive, and you also need to be tested? Apparently, reaching out to partners of people diagnosed with HIV, informing them that they may have been exposed to the virus and they also need to be …

September 2017 Dailynation; A Class Eight pupil in a Kisii school is among eight women forced into a congested ward at Christa Marriane Hospital because they have nowhere else to go. Speaking to the Sunday Nation, the pupil, who is scheduled to sit the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination, burst …

May 2017 DailyNation; Kenya only has only 2,089 specialist doctors, a new national survey of the country’s hospital staff has revealed. In 2015, there were 5,660 medical doctors, with 387 of them specialising in gynaecology. Experts in general surgery stood at 338 while internal medicine experts were 296. NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES …