Health Providers Association of Kenya

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People need to let others be. This world is full of people who think they know better, they think better, they are better, their past, current and future is better... that's ok but don't expect everyone is on the same wavelength. Do JUST YOU and be happy with yourself. Don't put your idea of Life, or how someone should live, look, feel, dress, express themselves as the truth. Do YOU whatever makes your soul happy as long as it's right by God. No one can judge us but the Almighty. Stop being the moral or life cop. The world is too big for that limited thinking. We are all different because God created us that way. Love as much as you can and be kind. Stop the hate, see the good in yourself and other people. We are ALL God's children and creation. God Knows each of us by the strands of hair on our heads, so who are you to bring someone down, abuse someone, insult someone, injure someone, kill someone? No one is above anyone on God's green earth. Show love and be a good human and blessings will come your way. God bless you. Happy Sunday. Happy New Month. My Birthday Month!!!!! 15th March!

Participating in the framework on integrated people-centred health services in the WHO Executive Boardroom.

Press statement after Council of Governors consultative meeting, 31st August, 2017

New PressMembers of the Press,
Citizens of Kenya,

The Council of Governors today held a consultative meeting to discuss the Nurses Strike, Transitional Challenges across 47 County Governments and the Induction of Governors and Deputy Governor’s.
First, allow me to congratulate Hon. Kennneth Lusaka for being elected the Speaker of the Senate. As a Council, we look forward to a collaborative engagement with the Senate in the next five years.

Nurses Strike:
Invited in the meeting were Ministry of Health Cabinet Secretary Dr. Cleopa Mailu; Public Service Commission Chairperson Prof. Margaret Kobia; Salaries and Remuneration Commission Chief Executive Ms Anne Gitau; Chairpersons of the County Public Service Boards; and representatives of the Ministry of Devolution and Planning.
• The Council of Governors has made various efforts to resolve the current stalemate on the nurses’ strike. However, we all are cognizant of the fact that there are financial implications in meeting the demands of the nurses; some of which cannot be met due to budgetary constraints. The SRC has in various occasions advised on the monetary issues of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).
• From the consultations amongst County Governments and the SRC, the CBA as demanded by nurses cannot be implemented in its current form.
• As a matter of fact, the nurses’ strike is illegal. It is notable that the nurses went on strike while the negotiations on their CBA were taking place. This was an act of bad faith.
• From the above, this is the position of the Council:
1. The Council hereby puts all the striking nurses on notice to return to work by 8th September, 2017.
2. For those who will have returned to work:

There will be no victimization of the nurses who participated in the strike;
Counties will withdraw all show cause letters issued before this date;
Counties will pay all unpaid salaries;
There will be a joint appeal to SRC for a Job Re-evaluation.
The negotiations for the CBA will proceed and finalized.
3. All nurses who will not have returned to work by the above stipulated date will stand sacked.
4. Thereafter, the Counties will advertise the positions of the nurses.
5. Counties will then hire nurses on a contract basis. This is happening in some Counties and the same practice will be adopted by all the forty-seven (47) Counties.
6. The COG has approved that a generic advert be generated by the secretariat of the Council on behalf of all the Counties.
7. In this event, interested candidates will make applications to the specific Counties where they would like to work in.
8. Payment of salaries to the striking nurses will be stopped immediately.
• Despite the industrial actions that have been witnessed in the health sector, we reiterate that County health services will remain a County function.
Human Resource in the Counties:
• As you are aware, recently there have been massive lay-offs in the Counties. It is important to understand that there have been emerging human resource issues that the new Governors find themselves in:
1. There are instances where State Officers and/or public officers whose term is defined in law received contracts that were beyond this defined term. To illustrate, there are cases where County Secretaries were put on permanent and pensionable terms.
2. In certain Counties, there were public officers who initially were recruited on contractual basis, but just before the elections, they were quickly placed on permanent and pensionable terms.
3. Additionally, there are instances where new Governors are faced with a bloated workforce, and this will be financially untenable in the long run.
• We understand that there has been anxiety in the public arena on this issues but all the nascent transitional challenges are being handled on a case to case basis. The Governors are not acting in malice. They are only keen on ensuring that County Governments recruit and retain competent and skilled staff for effective service delivery.

• The Council has agreed as follows: That the due process of the law will be followed in discharging CECs and Chief officers.

H.E. Josphat Nanok
Chairman, Council of Governors

http://www.compleathealthsystems.com/health-systems/safeguard-strikes-lockouts-health-care-workers-kenya/

Safeguard against strikes, lockouts by health care workers in Kenya - Compleat Health Systems There was an urgent need for safeguards against strikes and lockouts by health care workers in Kenya.  However Article 41 of the Kenya Constitution and labour relations laws spelt that: workers could express their rights to go on strike as one of the avenues when their rights to better terms and con...

A letter from a Senior Nurse and Mentor to many Nurses.

Dear Nurses, we have all fulfilled our civic responsibility in the just ended national elections. What is in front of us is more important and that is our fate that hangs between Job Evaluation by SRC and the CBA. We also have urgent Nursing Reforms to reshape our profession for dignity and respect like in other countries.
The questions we need to focus on are:
1. Nursing job description
2. Scope of practice by grade and qualification.
3. How to enhance value of Nursing in the public and industry perspectives.
4. Asserting Nursing independence
5. Prompting respect for interdependent and dependent functioning of the nurse
6. Consensus on systematic shedding off non nursing duties that degrade our value.
7. How to promote Nursing Research in our practice
Colleagues our fate hangs on these among other professional issues. Let us dedicate our efforts to chart our future in our great unity and respect.

RE: ENDORSEMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BY TRADE UNIONS

MY Fellow Nurses.
Nursing in Kenya started way back in 1908 and Nurses progressively have driven the Nursing Agenda with high degree of professionalism and impartiality.

The need for nursing is universal. Inherent in nursing is a respect for human rights, including cultural rights, the right to life and choice, to dignity and to be treated with respect. Nursing care is respectful of and unrestricted by considerations of age, color, creed, culture, disability or illness, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, politics, race or social status.

While the other unions strategically signed their CBA securing their members for the next four years our union leaders have just been politicking. The purported endorsement is a diversionary tactic having realized they have been exposed.

Fellow Nurses the General Secretary on 23rd May, 2017 wrote a letter which stated inter alia : RE: REVIEW OF UNION ON UPGRADING/GRADING OF NURSES ON CBA BEFORE SIGNING. This letter also served as a Strike Notice

On 2nd August, 2017 the union leaders and COG addressed the content of the said letter and the Strike and drafted the RTWF. The union leaders requested time to consult before signing but they never returned.

Our constant advises that Panyako and Team had nothing for Nurses and have been using nurses to propagate a Political Agenda have come to fulfillment. To achieve their Agenda they filed cases to Block the Job Evaluation, NCK representatives, Director of Nursing and misused union money to wreck nurses associations. It is a bitter pill that we all have to swallow.

As a Rescue Team we respect that every Nurse has a Political Right, unions don’t vote but we cannot allow the union leaders to balkanize nurses into political theatrics. In 2007 when Kenya was at the lowest moment as nurses we upheld our Professional Ethics. We wish to call upon fellow Nurses to uphold the same at this time of electioneering.

Fellow nurses in recent past we have worked with the Leading Presidential Candidates to drive the Nurses Agenda and wish to tell Nurses any Government works through systems and rule of the Law. We therefore wish to distance ourselves with such endorsements and pledge to ALL Kenyans that we shall continue to uphold our professional ethics.

We request Nurses to respect the RTWF offered by the Government so we can have ample time to:
1. Hold consultative meetings across the counties to ensure branch leaders and members are involved in decision making of the union.
2. Have a comprehensive Job Evaluation to be incorporated in the CBA.
3. Discuss on the ways to strengthen our Regulatory Body to enforce nursing standards to avoid the Burnout being experienced by Nurses in KNH and other hospitals
4. Implement the Scheme of Service matrix to ensure we have adequate Nurses (all cadres) employed and also ensures leadership uniformity across the counties. Today we have county Nurse Coordinators at different job groups some at Job Group L instead of Job Group R which has hindered career progression of many nurses.

Our humble appeal we have one TRIBE called Nursing we may have our different point of views but it is only when we talk that we make progress. Let us arise and reclaim our Professional Identity. No amount of Political Gimmicks should warrant us lose our Professional Ethics and Trust people have on Nurses.

Elections come and go but Nursing remains; we call upon Nurses to maintain Peace, love and Unity before, during and after the elections

For and on behalf of KNUN RESCUE TEAM.

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”-REV. DR. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I want to take this opportunity to Thank ALL the Nurses who are working especially today in Nyeri County for exhibiting high degree of professionalism when Halima,Opetu,Adolwa and Munderu attempted to undertake unethical ACT. It should dawn to the said leaders that they are not negotiating with fellow Nurses but with the employer. We fought for a democratic Union not a cult and we wish to assure these guys if they can't negotiate with the employers they better join Seth Panyako in politics.

In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams. ~ Nigerian proverb

HEPAK takes this opportunity to congratulate the Union of Kenya Civil Servants for successfully negotiating CBA without calling a strike or subjecting innocent Kenyans to untold suffering. It's our hope that other union leaders can borrow a leaf.

HEPAK takes this opportunity to Thank H.E THE President for assenting the HEALTH ACT which creates a Central Body to manage Human Resource for Health.