healthcare,Quality Healthcare and Patient Safety Bill Stories
If enacted, the Bill will require all health facilities to provide only the services they are licensed and qualified to offer. Those found operating b...
This increase marks a threefold allocation to the fund, which has historically been severely underfunded.
The total health budget has increased to Sh138 billion for the 2025/2026 fiscal year, up from Sh123 billion—a reversal of three consecutive years of b...
The Health CS attributed the situation to budget constraints, logistical challenges, and poor prioritisation of pharmaceutical waste management at the...
In a world where survival depends on showing up, even blood and pain don’t qualify as reasons not to report to work.
Okoa Uchumi says several proposals in the Finance Bill 2025 place an unfair burden on ordinary citizens while protecting elite interests, risking grea...
Known as Lipa SHA Pole Pole or Lipa SHA Mos Mos, the system allows Kenyan households, especially those in the informal sector, to pay their annual hea...
Key factors causing mental health challenges for healthcare workers include heavy workloads, limited resources, tough working conditions, delayed pay...
The unions under the Health Sector Caucus, said at least 97 Global Fund staff, mostly clinical and laboratory officers, have gone nearly a year withou...
More than 3,600 attacks were recorded against health workers and medical facilities in conflict zones, marking the highest number ever reported by the...
The system allows applicants to submit all required details electronically, including the facility name, location, classification, services offered, s...
Amnesty also said it had received “an alert from the healthcare professionals’ association” indicating that its president, Yonatan Dagnaw, “was arrest...
Of those admitted, 44,459 were in public facilities, despite Kiambu’s total bed capacity of only about 1,600.
The move follows outrage from doctors who say they are unable to access services despite monthly deductions.
Many hospital departments have been destroyed, and patients, including critically ill children, have been left without shelter and forced onto the str...
Without adequate investment in human resources and infrastructure, Kenya may struggle to respond effectively to future health emergencies, thereby com...
This marks a 13.5 per cent increase from the Sh107.52 billion allocated in the 2023/24 financial year.
Though hired on contractual terms, they were assured that their positions would be converted to permanent and pensionable roles after a set period.
The medics said they would not accept being moved to the counties under what they termed “stipend arrangements.”
The fund aims to save the lives of 300,000 mothers and newborns and enhance the quality of care for 34 million mothers and babies by the year 2030.
The policy would also ensure that top officials no longer enjoy medical privileges at the taxpayer’s expense, a move that could save the government mi...
KNH has established both verbal and non-verbal communication channels, including social media platforms, to encourage patients and their families to p...
Available documents show that roughly a third of the Sh300-Sh400 million allocated to the hospital’s projects has been released, yet details of the co...
Part of the funds will go towards the construction of Kongowea Level 4 Hospital, the refurbishment of Likoni Sub-County Hospital.
According to UHC workers, they have endured years of unfulfilled promises since their recruitment in May 2020, particularly regarding their absorption...
Patients continue to experience long delays, and healthcare workers are burdened with inefficient manual systems.
Siyat Noor Issack, a community leader who spoke on behalf of locals, said both the community and hospital staff had a reason to celebrate the one-year...
He urged the agencies to hold regular consultative meetings with county governments to identify challenges in the sector and work collaboratively to a...
The well-known maxim that “prevention is better than cure” holds not just for health outcomes but also for economic efficiency.
The program is designed to provide participants with practical tools and strategies to improve preparedness, response, and recovery during outbreaks.
