If Ebola Comes, Kenya Will Be Ready
Kenya's got the processes in place to help health workers provide excellent care—now or in an emergency.
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Mathew Thuku is assistant director of National HRH Strengthening for IntraHealth's USAID-funded Human Resources for Health Capacity Bridge Project.
Kenya's got the processes in place to help health workers provide excellent care—now or in an emergency.
A major contributing factor to the chronic health worker shortage in Kenya is the high cost of medical education, which many aspiring Kenyan families cannot afford. Dropout rate of students at the...
The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 gave county governments the responsibility of managing health service delivery, which formed 50-70 percent of the county workforce after devolution. In the former...
County leadership were ill prepared in human resources for health management capacity, leadership structures, and organizational arrangements when the Government of Kenya devolved health service...
Health worker-related industrial unrest has serious negative effects on health service delivery especially on rural poor. Kenya’s health worker strike lasted over 300 days, with the doctors’...