December 2018 theStar;Kenya will inch closer to its goal of attaining Universal Health Coverage by 2022 on Thursday, when President Uhuru Kenyatta launches the pilot phase of the programme in Kisumu. WHO defines universal health care as ensuring all people have access to quality preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitation and palliative …
Read More »KENYA:Relief for patients as four cancer centres to be set up for Sh8bn
February 2017 BusinessDaily; The Health ministry has announced a plan to build four cancer centres for Sh8 billion starting this June in a move which promises to shorten the waiting time for thousands of patients. Dr Anne Ng’ang’a, the Head of the National Cancer Control Programme in the Ministry of Health …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors’ strike begins another round of agony for patients
May 2017 DailyNation; Health services have been paralysed in all public hospitals in Nakuru County after doctors downed their tools demanding a five-month unpaid salary. And in Nyeri, a strike by nurses that started on May 1 has shut down services in public hospitals in the region, forcing patients to …
Read More »KENYA: Crisis at Nyeri hospital as theatre is shut due to shortage of nurses
April 2017 DailyNation; Patients seeking surgical services at Nyeri Referral Hospital are being turned away as the facility shuts their main theatre over a shortage of nurses. According to the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) secretary Beatrice Nduati, the hospital should have six to 10 nurses serving the three …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors in four counties threaten to go on strike
April 2017 DailyNation; Over 400 doctors from four central Kenya counties have vowed to paralyse activities in public hospitals from Thursday over delayed salaries, deplorable state of the facilities and poor staffing. The doctors also accused the government of failing to implement a return-to-work formula that they signed when the …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors in Nyeri Set to Go on Strike as County Fails to Address Grievances
September 2016 DailyNation; Doctors in Nyeri are set to down tools on Friday for what they have said is poor staffing, delayed salaries and failure to give them study leave unless the county addresses their grievances. In a notice issued last week, the doctors that persistent failure by the county …
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