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New year reprieve as clinical officers call off strike
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Judah Ben-Hur | January 1st 2021 at 01:56:21 GMT +0300
Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) General Secretary George Gibore addressing the press in Nakuru on October 27,2020 on Covid 19 situation in the country. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
Clinical officers have handed Kenyans a new year gift, ending their 26-day long strike after coming to an agreement with the Ministry of health, a welcome relief for the healthcare sector overstretched with admissions.
Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) signed a return-to-work formula Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe at Afya House on Friday, its chairman Peterson Wachira said.
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Nurses blame doctors for failed dialogue amid dispute
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John Shilitsa | December 29th 2020 at 09:30:00 GMT +0300
The nurses’ union has accused doctors of betrayal for calling off their strike last week.
Kenya National Union of Nurses Secretary General Seth Panyako yesterday claimed the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) had frustrated their efforts to negotiate for better working terms.
Mr Panyako,
(pictured), said his union’s negotiations with the government collapsed last Friday after KMPDU tabled its demand for a risk allowance.
“The government had offered Sh8,000 risk allowance, which we were ready to take due to the prevailing economic hardship, but KMPDU scuttled everything with a demand of Sh30,000–the amount we had demanded earlier without success.”
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December 29th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
A patient with an oxygen mask. [File, Standard]
Compared to several weeks ago, the number of daily confirmed Covid-19 cases reported by the Ministry of Health has gone down by a huge margin.
On Sunday, the ministry announced that 80 people had tested positive for the disease out of 1,601 samples. The number of cases was 130 the day before.
Considering that the country has for months been recording hundreds of cases daily, this without doubt is a good sign. It gives a glimmer of hope that we can beat the coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) that has wreaked havoc on lives and livelihoods across the country, if we strictly observe the guidelines laid down by the Health ministry.
Modernaâs Coronavirus Vaccine Begins Arriving at Strained Hospitals Across the U.S.
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A variant of the virus that is spreading in Britain has prompted countries to bar travelers from there. Some U.S. governors are also pushing for restrictions.
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The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine arrived at sites across the country Monday. Yanitza Reeves, a medical worker, received one of the first doses at Christ Hospital in Jersey City, N.J.Credit.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
Just one week after the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine were administered in the United States, a new batch of vaccines fanned out across the country on Monday, an urgently needed expansion of a vaccination effort that is expected to reach vulnerable populations and rural areas where hospitals are strained as soon as this week.