Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO)

Unions decry shortage of medics, urge State to recruit more clinical officers

Reading Time: 3 minutes The country’s public health facilities have only 7,000 clinical officers. This is short of the required 21,000 health workers. Staffing […]

Health crisis worsens as lab technicians join striking medics

Reading Time: 2 minutes Health crisis in Mombasa has escalated after Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratories Officers (KNUMLO) downed their tools yesterday. They […]

Crisis looms as clinicians issue 48-hour strike notice

Reading Time: 2 minutes Clinical officers have threatened to resume their nationwide strike tomorrow if governors fail to implement a Return to Work Formula […]

Health care workers accuse State of playing down their concerns

Reading Time: 2 minutes Evans Nyakundi and KNA Thousands of patients continue to seek medical services elsewhere as most public health facilities remained closed […]

Medics list demands in new strike ultimatums

Reading Time: 2 minutes Healthcare services could soon be paralysed after doctors and clinicians yesterday threatened to down tools over what they termed as […]

Civil society piles pressure over Afya House scandals

Reading Time: 3 minutes Eric Wainaina @EWainaina The civil society has put investigative agencies on the spot over failure to probe several scandals, involving […]