Tag: health workers

Homa Bay health workers call for hiring of more staff

A number of healthcare workers’ unions in Homa Bay have sent a plea to the county government to consider hiring more medical staff to cope with the influx of patients, in order to meet their medical expectations in public health facilities. The unions which include Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU), Kenya National Union […]

45 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus in Mombasa

Hazel Koitaba

Forty-Five health workers have tested positive for Covid-19 in Mombasa County since March, 2020. Mombasa county Health County Executive Committee (CEC) member Hazel Koitaba said out of the number, 35 were from private hospitals within the county. This raises questions over the safety of frontline workers in the fight against the virus that has continued […]

Revealed: Most counties not ready to tackle Covid-19 pandemic, Senate team warns

governors

The majority of county governments are either not ready or ill-prepared to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic which is now in at least 21 counties, representatives of healthcare workers, unions and professional associations have said. They include health workers unions such as the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union, Kenya Union of Clinical Officers and the […]