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Official X account for Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union • Improving Doctors' Welfare • Advocating Universal Healthcare 🏥
Mar 4 4 tweets 2 min read
🔴 SHIF/SHA IN SHAMBLES: Our last official statement on SHA, issued on October 3, 2024, warned that SHIF/SHA was a sinking ship. Barely 5 months later, civil servants are being forced to fundraise for medical care despite enduring double deductions—2.75% to SHIF... Image
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...and the forfeiture of their medical allowance to POMF. Meanwhile, hospitals nationwide are rejecting patients under the POMF scheme due to unpaid bills. The ship has capsized, and the crisis has reached a breaking point. The government has two weeks to act.
Sep 9, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
We observe the trend; Governors visit health centres & hospitals, parade health workers, decry poor state, intimidate health workers & all sorts of PR stunts. We will not stop you, but while at it make your contributions to the health care sector in your counties. We ask you to make those county hospitals your first point of call when you fall ill and not run for covers or to the city. Make healthcare work in your Counties BY HIRING & TRAINING DOCTORS Remit NHIF and other statutory deductions.