REPUBLIC OF KENYA

COUNTY GOVERNMENT OF KIRINYAGA

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

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MEDIA STATEMENT

Thursday June 27, 2019

RE: STATUS OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES IN KIRINYAGA

COUNTY

The County Executive Committee held a cabinet meeting on 26 th

of June 2019, chaired by the Governor, H.E. Anne Waiguru.
Among the issued discussed was an update by the department of
health on the status of the hospitals in the county.

The following is a summary of that report;

A. Number of health workers in the County

CADRE TOTAL NOT ON STRIKE ON STRIKE

Doctors 81 43 38
Clinical 121 30 91
Officers
Nurses 482 165 317
Medical 108 14 94
laboratory staff
Other Cadres 474 474 0
TOTAL 1266 726 540
 A total of 251 medical officers did not go on strike and have
continued to offer services to the residents of Kirinyaga.

In addition, the county temporarily engaged 98 more medical

officers as a stop gap measure to offer the most critical
services across all sub-county hospitals in the county.

B. Number of patients served in the sub-county hospitals

It was reported that all sub-county hospitals in the county are

operational and are continuing to offer services to patients. In the
past two weeks, Kerugoya County Referral Hospital had served
4666 patients, Kimbimbi Hospital 3075 patients, while Kianyaga
and Sagana Hospitals had served 1592 and 1346 patients
respectively.

This means a total of 10,679 patients have been served at the

county health facilities in the last two weeks. A summary of the
above is shown in the table extract here below:

Out-Patient Department performance workload in our four (4) hospitals

following the engagement of the two months contract Health Care
Workers.

DATE KERUGOYA KIMBIMBI KIANYAGA SAGANA

COUNTY SUB- SUB-COUNTY SUB-
REFERRAL COUNTY HOSPITAL COUNTY
HOSPITAL HOSPITAL HOSPITAL
12TH JUNE 172 84 44 23
2019
13TH JUNE 192 147 74 36
2019
14TH JUNE 244 135 110 44
2019
15TH JUNE 244 57 61 30
2019
16TH JUNE 105 72 59 46
2019
17TH JUNE 121 158 192 120
2019
18TH JUNE 568
2019 158 192 120
19TH JUNE 531
2019 187 413 141
20TH JUNE 552
2019 141 131 162
21ST JUNE 605
2019 176 172 186
22ND JUNE
2019 480 163 110 56
23RD JUNE
2019 162 70 63 50
24TH JUNE
2019 179 91 72 206
25TH JUNE
2019 657 223 169 921

TOTAL 4640 3071 1590 1340

Grand Total. 10, 641 patients.

C. Status of Strike

It was also reported that inspite of the court order issued on the
24th of May terming the health workers strike illegal, some of the
workers continued to participate in the strike.

D. Conclusion (Cabinet Resolutions)

Based on the foregoing, the cabinet resolved to take the following

actions in a bid to ensure health services continue with no
disruption to residents:

 To withhold the June salaries of all those health workers

participating in the strike action by failing to report to work

 To terminate the services of all medical workers

participating in the on-going, illegal and unprotected strike

 To retain the 98 health workers engaged in the month of

June on contract basis to support the 251 medical
personnel who did not go on strike.

 To hire additional health workers as replacements for all

those on strike, should they continue with the illegal strike.

ANNE WAIGURU
GOVERNOR- KIRINYAGA COUNTY