Joho fires 86 doctors, including KMPDU boss Mwachonda
Wednesday January 06 2021
By WINNIE ATIENO
Summary
In a letter signed by county secretary Jeizan Faruk, Governor Hassan Joho’s administration dismissed the 86 striking workers for boycotting duty.
The Joho administration further instructed the doctors to immediately hand over all properties belonging to the county government to their supervisors.
Wards in major hospitals are empty with services such as surgery, maternity, in-patient, and out-patient suspended as doctors, nurses, laboratory technologists, clinical officers, and radiographers boycott duties.
Mombasa county government has sacked 86 doctors, including KMPDU boss Chibanzi Mwachonda and senior specialists for refusing to return to work.
Doctors, nurses and clinical officers protest a long Digo road in Mombasa. They want the Government to pay them 30,000 shillings for risk allowance, National Hospital insurance funds among other allowances. Medical workers also demand personal protective equipment s in the ongoing Covid 19 Pandemic. 22nd December 2020. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
Kenya National Union of medical Laboratory officers has issued a 7-day ultimatum that will prompt a strike if they are not included in the ongoing dispute resolution mechanism between the government and health unions.
The strike will take effect on Tuesday, January 5 if the Union is not given an audience by the government and several of its issues not addressed.
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Coronavirus upends best laid education plans in tough year
Wednesday December 30 2020
Children play at Star of Hope Primary in Lunga Lunga village, Industrial Area Nairobi attends to a student on November 2. Schools reopen on January 4. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG
By LYNET IGADWAH
Summary
Many parents were optimistic that the interruption in the first term would soon be over and their children back in class. In hindsight now, Kenyans were underestimating the disruptive power of the pandemic whose impact they had yet to fully comprehend.
As the Ministry of Education grappled with unworkable school reopening dates in subsequent months when Covid-19 infections spiked, it became clear that pupils and students were in real danger of losing out on an academic year.
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Lab technicians issue strike notice over unfulfilled demands
Health & Science - By
Mireri Junior | December 30th 2020 at 11:19:36 GMT +0300
Members of the Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers (KNUMLO) celebrate at Milimani courts, Nairobi after being cleared to register their own union in 2018. The union has issued a seven-day strike notice over unmet demands. [File, Standard]
Amid rising Covid-19 cases, Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers (KNUMLO) has issued a seven-day trike notice over failure by the government to address their grievances.
In a statement to media houses on Tuesday, KNUMLO general secretary Chrisphine Momanyi accused the government of failing to act on the union’s raft of demands