1963 – 1969In 1963 Kenya got its independence from the British. In 1969 the President of Kenya, Mzee Jommo Kenyatta, the founding father of the nation ordered The Nairobi University to start training medical students. Previously doctors were coming from the Makerere University in Uganda. 1971In 1971 the pay for medical officer interns was relatively […]
PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY OF CONTINENTAL SECURITYThe time has come again when we will be having very many discussions, debates and controversies on how to approach the management of MPOX, a disease that has been declared a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. In Kenya this will definitely reignite the COVID-19 controversies of primary prevention via
MPOX THREAT – A CALL TO A UNIFIED HEALTH APPROACH IN DEVOLUTION Read More »
KAKAMEGA COUNTY – HOSTILE EMPLOYER TO DOCTORS One of the issues that a lack of a Health Service Commission has shown about human resources for health management is the unequal treatment of equal professionals across different counties. Using the treatment of doctors as an example let me highlight some of the challenges that are being
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POSTING OF MEDICAL INTERNSFollowing many days of protests at the Ministry of health in a campaign dubbed #OccupyMOH, medical interms were finally deployed to their various stations of work. They received what is called at termless contract, termless because the exact amounts of pay was not put in the contract, pending determination in September 2024
