Doctors

• Kenya has adequate healthcare workers

  
  1 day ago
  President Uhuru Kenyatta last month signed an agreement to have 100 healthcare workers from Cuba deployed to Kenya during a State visit.

• Fresh doubts emerge over Cuban doctors skills

  
  4 days ago
  As the arrival date of 100 specialised doctors from Cuba edges closer, questions abound about their fields of specialty

• How Kenyans died during 100-day doctors’ strike

  
  4 days ago
  Hard to forget and never to be hoped for again situation only comparable to a war or an epidemic zone

• Sh4.6m boost for free fistula treatment

  
  6 days ago
  The Flying Doctors Society of Africa (FDSA) has raised Sh4.6 million to go to free fistula treatment.

• Cuban doctors set for Kenya mission

  
  1 week ago
  Cuban doctors who are to be deployed in counties have already started training in Cuba’s capital, Havana.

• The question in Cuba doctors story - A time for reflection

  
  2 weeks ago

• Nurses take on doctors

  
  3 weeks ago
  The nurses' union asked the court to suspend five sections of the Act, claiming that Health ministry ignored their input when drafting the new rules

• KMPDU rejects Government plan to hire doctors on contract

  
  3 weeks ago
  Doctors union has protested against underway plans to have specialists employed on contract.

• Cuban doctors to be posted to all counties

  
  3 weeks ago
  The Council of Governors (CoG) has said some of the doctors would be posted to Kenyatta National Hospital.

• Doctors oppose plans to hire foreign doctors

  
  3 weeks ago
  The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has opposed plans to employ doctors from other countries, saying it will deny local medics

• IDPs die from cold

  
  1 month ago
  Residents from a camp for internally displaced persons have reportedly died over the last one month from...

• Kenya set to receive 100 doctors from Cuba

  
  1 month ago
  Kenya has agreed to accelerate a health agreement it signed with Cuba last year, by importing doctors from the Caribbean nation to fill gaps

• Kenyan doctors take on German plastic surgeon

  
  1 month ago
  Kenyan doctors want Tilman Stasch and other foreigners blocked from practising in the country.

• Zimbabwe hospitals shut as doctors strike

  
  1 month ago
  The action is the first major labour dispute under President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

• Canadian doctors reject salary increments

  
  1 month ago
  Kenyan doctors have gone on innumerable strikes over salary woes, while their counterparts in Canada are unhappy about getting a pay rise.

• MCAs accuse doctors of attending to patients while drunk

  
  1 month ago
  medic recently administered treatment on a patient while drunk and had to recall patient after sobering up because he realised he gave the wrong drugs

• Long queues push Kenyans to search Google for self-medication

  
  1 month ago
  Biting shortage of doctors in public hospitals is pushing Kenyans online for self-medication.

• Lack of workers and drugs plague hospitals

  
  1 month ago
  Poor infrastructure, inadequate medics affects Health services in Nakuru

• Doctor lecturers call off planned strike

  
  2 months ago
  The 605 medics are demanding medical risk allowances and the emergency call allowances awarded to doctors last year after their three-month strike.