A report on the uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine indicates that Northern Frontier counties are lagging behind.
Apart from the frontier counties, some of which have infrastructural challenges, Eastern, Rift Valley and Western regions are also still struggling in the programme that initially targeted medics and other frontline workers.
For instance, few medics in Nyamira County have taken up the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Out of the more than 800 people who have been vaccinated in Nyamira, less than 200 are workers in the medical field.
Nyamira Health Chief Officer Jack Magara attributed the slow rate of vaccination among medical workers to the stringent protocols followed in administering vaccines alongside other programmes like sensitisation of the populations and ensuring there is no interference in workflows in the respective departments.
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Wafula Lukorito |
January 30th 2021 at 00:06:52 GMT +0300
From left- Rift Valley Regional Commissioner George Natembeya, Governor Josphat Nanok, and others. [Yvonne Chepkwony, Standard]
Over the past several weeks, a glance at newspapers and primetime news would have one thinking that Armageddon has descended upon Kapedo, the village bordering Pokot and Turkana counties that media outlets have described as “sleepy”. One thing is certain though no one in Kapedo is sleeping soundly as government forces battle what we are told are a group of bandits and rudimentary militia. Police officers and locals alike have been slain gangland style while the region stands at the brink of a humanitarian crisis it’s a sad state of affairs. While I mourn the dead and empathise with the people of Turkana, I want to probe why the region’s security has always remained rickety and on stilts. Government officials, it seems, would want us to believe that violence in th
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The Turkana County government has promoted 841 health workers after a two-week tussle with the Kenya National Union of Nurses and allied unions over delayed promotions.
County Health Chief Officer, Dr Roberts Abok, said that the 841 medics were issued with promotion letters as part of the devolved unit s routine promotions aimed at providing employees with opportunities for career progression. The promotion is part of the county s commitment to enhance staff retention and attract the best workforce from all over the country, he said.
He said they have been through a four-month process that started in May 2020 when the request for promotions was formally received from individual applicants.