Kenyans for Kenya funds stop hunger pangs

Hope for Nakuru residents over stained teeth

Sep 26 | NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 26 - Fifteen year-old Kevin Muriithi was only seven years when his teeth started discolouring. He lives in Kaptembwa estate in Nakuru. His parents thought his teeth were turning brown as a result of eating a lot of sugary foods. "When my teeth started becoming brown, we thought it was due to sweets and I stopped. But it continued...

Consultant doctors to join colleagues in strike

Sep 6 | NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 6 - The Kenya Medical Association (KMA) has threatened to join the ongoing strike by registrar doctors if the government does not address their concerns. A strike by the consultant doctors who are members of the KMA would effectively paralyse operations at the Kenyatta National and Mathari hospitals. This came as the Kenya Medical...

Nairobi Women’s Hospital now in Kitengela

Sep 5 | NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 5 - The Director of Medical Services has challenged the Nairobi Women's hospital to invest in a forensic laboratory that would ensure justice for Gender Based Violence (GBV) survivors. Francis Kimani said survivors of sexual violence would get justice since DNA achieves 100 percent evidence. "Whereas there is a forensic lab at the...

KUPPET formally joins teachers’ strike

Sep 5 | NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 5 - The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) in Kisumu County on Wednesday sought divine intervention to help them get fair pay from the government as they officially began their strike. Members of the union converged at the Kisumu ACK church where bishop Mwai Abiero took them through prayers for the government...

Nyong’o slaps ban on striking registrar doctors

Sep 4 | NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 4 - Medical Services Minister Anyang' Nyong'o has withdrawn the right by striking registrar doctors to train and practice at the Kenyatta National Hospital. The minister who acted following a strike by the post graduate doctors also suspended all registrars at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital until end of this month, although...

Striking registrar doctors threatened with sacking

Sep 3 | NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 3 - The government has threatened to take disciplinary action against striking registrar doctors at the Kenyatta and Mathari hospitals. A letter signed by Patrick Musichi on behalf of the Ministry of Medical Services dated August 30, states that the registrar doctors are suspended from duty with immediate effect. "Absence from...

How 1997 teachers’ pay deal was agreed – Kamotho

Sep 3 | NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 3 - Former powerful Cabinet Minister Joseph Kamotho who negotiated the now controversial pay deal with teachers, says the agreement should first be honoured before any fresh negotiations are made. Kamotho who was the Education Minister in 1997 said the government needed to urgently address the matter to put it to an end. In an interview...

Missionary fights over hospitals with Kenyan Cardinal

Aug 31 | NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 31 - A Catholic Priest has sued John Cardinal Njue and Marie Therese Gacambi of the Assumption Sisters for interfering with the running of St Mary's Mission hospital and high school in Nairobi, and a similar hospital in Nakuru. In the civil case filed on Wednesday, Father William Charles Fryda of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers...

Experts call for changes to draft health law

Aug 30 | NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 30 - A non-governmental organisation has called for the revision of a draft health Bill that proposes radical changes in the health sector. Reproductive Health and Rights Alliance (RHRA) said the draft health Bill by the ministries of health should be reviewed to address all the critical issues before it's submitted to the Commission...