Doctors strike

• Doctors turn the heat on Health docket officials

  
  2 months ago
  Doctors have demanded the removal of two county government officials before they can call off their strike over salaries.

• Patients flock hospital for medical services

  
  3 months ago
  The Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital is feeling the effects of a crippling strike of medical staff in Nyamira County.

• Medics to down tools over withdrawal of allowance

  
  3 months ago
  Medics to go on strike to protest the move by the county administration to scrap allowances for health workers.

• Is Kenya going through a winter of discontent?

  
  3 months ago
  We have had our winter of discontent with doctors, lecturers and teachers striking. In the UK even those who bury the dean went on strike.

• It’s now all systems go for Cuban doctors

  
  4 months ago
  The Cuban doctors will head to work after court quashed bids to deny them employment

• Baby abandoned in life and death buried by volunteers

  
  5 months ago
  Boy’s parents are believed to have deserted him after admitting him to hospital because of his deformities.

• Gaps doctors created as they chase money in every town

  
  5 months ago
  Dr Samuel Owino* is employed at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), but this is not where the bulk of his salary comes from...

• Kenya, Cuba doctors seal deal

  
  6 months ago
  The deal to bring Cuban doctors to Kenya has officially been finalised.

• How Kenyans died during 100-day doctors’ strike

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

• Zimbabwe hospitals shut as doctors strike

  
  8 months ago
  The action is the first major labour dispute under President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

• Canadian doctors reject salary increments

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

• Doctor lecturers call off planned strike

  
  9 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.

• Doctors, lecturers issue strike notice over pay

  
  9 months ago
  The doctors insisted they had to be paid call and emergency allowances according to the Return-to-Work Formula signed in March 2017.

• Move to streamline health services welcome

  
  11 months ago
  Devolution actually succeeded in throwing the health sector into a spin.

• Newly formed health task force begins hospital visits

  
  1 year ago
  The team will provide evidence-based recommendations that will help enhance and improve the efficiency of delivery of health services

• State threatens to fire all nurses

  
  1 year ago
  The Government has given striking nurses one week to resume duty or face the sack.

• Public hospitals in crisis as doctors and nurses take to the streets

  
  1 year ago
  Medics said they had not been paid for the 100 days they were on strike.

• Elgeyo Marakwet County health department has accused the nurses’ union over a prompt strike

  
  1 year ago
  Elgeyo Marakwet County Executive Committee (CEC) Member in charge of health, Thomas Ruto has blamed the County Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) Secretary

• Doctors give government 16-day strike notice

  
  1 year ago
  The government has been issued with a 16-day ultimatum to complete negotiations on the doctors’ Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

• Treasury yet to release money to pay doctors when on strike

  
  1 year ago
  Counties are yet to receive money to pay doctors for the three months they were on strike, council of governor's chairman Peter Munya has said.