Kazungu Kambi

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• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, health workers are civil servants and their terms and conditions of service are tied with those of other civil servants. These apply to basic salaries and common allowances. Notwithstanding, the above case, the pay package of the medical practitioners, pharmacists and dentists are the best in the Civil Service. This is because they earn special allowances like non-practising and risk allowances that other civil servants do not enjoy. The non-practising allowances ranges from Kshs12,000 for an intern joining the service to Kshs60,000 for a Senior Deputy Director of Medical Services. However, the Director of Medical Services ... view
• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Medical practitioners, pharmacists and dentists join the Civil Service as interns at job Group L, where they serve for one year, and then they are appointed as Medical Officers on Job Group M. Other cadres join at lower levels, Job Group J for general degrees, and Job Group K for other professional degrees. Thus medical practitioners, pharmacists and dentists already enjoy privileged terms in the Civil Service. Even with the salary scales, the entry point for medical practitioners, pharmacists and dentists are towards the maximum of the scale, while other cadres have to begin from the start. Within the common ... view
• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, before the strike, the PSC had in addition approved payment of extraneous allowance for health workers ranging from Kshs5,000 for theatre support personnel to Kshs40,000 per month for doctors handling policy and co-ordination. What was remaining was funding from the Treasury. The Treasury has now approved funds for improvement of terms and conditions of service for health workers as follows: Kshs200 million for training has been availed. Also, Kshs1.9 billion for payment of extraneous allowances on phase one with effect from December, 2011 has been availed by the Treasury. A further Kshs5.2 billion for payment of ... view
• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, further to that, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance has availed Kshs113 million for implementation of delayed promotions agreed two years ago, and recruitment of additional 607 middle level health workers have also been agreed. Upgrading of 2,300 health workers has also been approved by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance. Employment of further 200 medical officers has been agreed by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance. view
• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in spite of this, the representatives of KPPDU have indicated that they will continue with the strike. Post-graduate students who are employees of the two health Ministries, and are training at the Kenya National Hospital (KNH), and Moi Referral Hospital are entitled to continue drawing their salaries. This is subject to clearance to pursue training by the parent Ministry and the Ministry of State for Public Service, which gives course approvals. view
• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, clearance to pursue training is necessary to ensure an orderly training programme, rationalization with the training budget and continuation of service delivery. Postgraduate students who have followed this procedure are drawing salaries which they are entitled to as per the service regulations. Post-graduate students pursuing training at KNH and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital fall under these two categories as follows: Those who are not employees of the Ministry before starting the training, former employees of the Ministry who resigned or deserted duties to pursue the training, the Government is not responsible for paying salaries to ... view
• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, finally, the Ministry proposed and lobbied for the creation of a Health Service Commission in the run-up to the enactment of the Constitution of Kenya. However, the proposals were rejected by the drafters and Kenyans. Service commissions are enshrined in the Constitution and to create one for the health sector requires a constitutional amendment. In this regard, as a Ministry, we believe that a Health Service Commission is desirable to address the unique needs of the health workers. However, this is a matter that is beyond the Ministry’s ability to occasion on our own. It requires ... view
• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. With the Abuja Declaration on 15 per cent, as a Ministry, we have made our proposal and have convinced the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance, who have assured us that in the Budget of next year, they are going to increase our allocation, if not by 15 per cent, by something close to that. view
• 8 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would not know about those people who are dying at home, because we do not have the records as they have not attended our facilities. So, the only death, which has also been mentioned by the hon. Member, happened on Sunday and not on Monday. It was not because of the strike as the strike started on Monday and not on Sunday. He succumbed to a normal illness. view