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South Africa

In S.A, the DA says government wasted over 28-million-rand on NHI advertising

To South Africa, where the DA says the government has wasted over 28-million-rand on National Health Insurance advertising while public hospitals struggle with staff shortages. The party argues that the funds, spent since April last year, should have been used to fill two-thousand vacant medical posts instead of promoting an unrealistic healthcare scheme. The DA’s Michele Clarke warns the doctor-to-patient ratio remains critically low, forcing many medical professionals to seek […]

today22 February, 2025

Africa

Kenyan doctors’ strike: the government keeps failing to hold up its end of the bargain

    By Kahura Mundia, University of Nairobi   At least 4,000 doctors are employed in Kenya’s public healthcare sector. Almost all of them went on strike on 14 March 2024, demanding the implementation of a labour agreement signed with the government in 2017. The agreement promised higher salaries, better working conditions and the recruitment of doctors. The Kenyan government said it didn’t have the money to honour the agreement, […]

today29 April, 2024