Kenyan healthcare system getting worse by the day – Report

By Citizen Reporter,

By Patrick Gatua The quality of healthcare and health facilities in the country is getting worse by the day. The Kenya Health Service Delivery I...

Embu County to be probed over alleged payment of Ksh.500M to ghost workers

By Anthony Ndwiga,

Embu County Assembly's Committee on Health is set to carry out a probe to determine the possibility of the County Government losing close to Ksh.500 m...

Embu county assembly , Ghost Workers , Health sector

Laikipia County Gov’t fires all 61 striking doctors

By Sharon Nkonge,

Laikipia Governor Ndiritu Muriithi has now announced that all the 61 doctors in the county who were on strike have since been relieved off their dutie...

CBA , doctors strike , Governor Ndiritu Muriithi , KMPDU , Laikipia County.

Governor Waiguru forms taskforce to clean up Kerugoya Hospital

By Citizen Reporter,

Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru has formed an emergency taskforce to oversee the immediate clean up of the Kerugoya County Referral Hospital which has...

ANNE WAIGURU , Kerugoya County Referral Hospital , Kirinyaga County.

Kiambu: Hospital where woman died while giving birth shut down

By Ian Omondi,

The Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board on Thursday revoked the registration and license of St. Teresa Maternity & Nursing Home in Kikuyu, Ki...

Hellen Wanjiru , Hospital closed , Kiambu County , NHIF , St. Teresa

Nairobi Clinical Officers issue strike notice

By Gloria Magudha,

A health crisis is looming in Nairobi County as clinical officers threatened to down their tools from Thursday, February 28. The health workers wan...

Clinical officers , Nairobi , Ruben Raboso

Crisis in public hospitals as more nurses down tools

By Benjamin Muriuki,

The country is headed for yet another week of paralysis in public health facilities across various counties with nurses under the Ministry of Health a...

ministry of health , Nurses strike

Health crisis deepens as clinical officers issue strike notice

By Robert Maina,

The Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) now says clinical officers will down their tools over frustrations in the Collective Bargaining Agreement ...

Clinical officers , strike

Woman forces twin daughters to undergo FGM to avoid ‘family curse’

By Kendi Njeru,

Police on Wednesday rescued two girls aged 12 years hidden at a home in Igambang'ombe Constituency, Tharaka-Nithi County, after allegedly undergoing f...

female genital mutilation (FGM) , tharaka nithi county

Mexican drug lord, Beltran Leyva, dead at 56 of cardiac arrest

By Reuters,

Hector Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug lord whose cartel earned a reputation as one of the country’s most vengeful and ruthless, died late on Sunday i...

Beltran Leyva , Mexican drug lord

Pumwani Hospital to receive more medical staff, cold rooms

By Ian Omondi,

Pumwani Maternity Hospital is set to receive more medical personnel, a functional cold room and a 24-hour transport system to ensure better quality de...

Joint Inquiry Committee , Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko , Pumwani Maternity Hospital

Embu hospital CEO Moses Njue suspended for allegedly assaulting female doctor

By Peter Gachanja,

The Embu County government has suspended embattled Embu Level V hospital chief executive officer Dr. Moses Njue for allegedly assaulting a female doct...

Dr. Moses Njue , embu , Embu Level V Hospital

FKE backs dispute resolution as industrial action cases rise

By Kepha Muiruri,

Industrial action amongst Kenyan civil servants goes without mentioning with the country’s workforce being underpinned by constant and regular strik...

Collective Bargaining Agreement , COTU , Federation of Kenyan Employers , FKE , industrial action , Jacqueline Mugo , labor , strike , Workers Union

Nurses down tools in Embu over contracts

By Anthony Ndwiga,

Operations at the Embu Teaching and Referral Hospital were on Monday paralysed after a section of nurses downed their tools citing frustrations from t...

County Health Executive , Embu County Health Department , Embu County. , Embu Teaching and Referral Hospital , Harrison Njagi , Jamlek Muturi , Kayzia Njeru

Crisis as shortage of doctors hits Embu hospitals

By Peter Gachanja,

A health crisis has hit Embu County following a shortage of medical doctors as a result of transfers and resignations, a situation that has left many ...

Crisis looming as shortage of doctors hits Embu county hospitals , Embu County. , Embu health CEC member Dr. Jamleck Muturi , Ishiara Level 4 hospital Board of management chairman Lincoln Njeru Ireri , Ishiara level 4 hospital in Mbeere North sub county , Kiritiri level 4 hospital , Siakago level 4 hospital

Kisumu County to hire 210 as nurses’ strike bites on

By Fridah Wangeci,

Kisumu County Government has announced plans to recruit 210 nurses on contract in the next six days in a bid to lessen the effects of the ongoing coun...

150 nurses , 368 striking nurses , DEAL! Nurses' , Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) , Kenya Nurses Union (KNU) , Kisumu County , KNUN Sec Gen Seth Panyakoo

CoG to distribute anti-malaria drugs in hard hit counties

By Mike Njoroge,

Counties hardest hit by malaria outbreak will receive additional drugs from Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), the Council of Governors Chair J...

anti-malaria , Chairman of CoG , Chairman of CoG JOSPHAT NANOK , Clinical officers , KEMSA , malaria outbreak , Nanok , turkana governor

Governor Kinyanjui looks to hire 300 as nurses’ strike bites

By Mike Njoroge,

The Nakuru County government has announced plans to recruit 300 nurses in a bid lessen the effects of the ongoing strike by nurses and clinical offic...

Former NTSA chairman Lee Kinyanjui , Lee Kinyanjui , Nakuru County , Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui , Nurses , Nurses strike , Nurses Strike Continues

Health sector under siege from SRC, claims Panyako

By Tabitha Rotich,

Nurses and clinicians have claimed that the health sector is under siege from the Sarah Serem-led commission, claiming they are to blame for the ills ...

George Gibore , Health sector under siege by SRC-clinical officers say , The Kenya Union of Clinical officers (KUCO)

Gaming firms taxation fate sealed as Uhuru assents to Finance Bill

By Citizen Team,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has Wednesday signed 9 Bills into law including the 2017 Finance Bill at State House, Nairobi. The Finance Act seeks to am...

Finance Bill 2017 , Gaming firms , tax , taxation