Senator Juliet Kimemia kiambu county 2017, Nairobi (2026)

09/07/2019

The greatest error that the devolution brought was to devolve the health sector.The county chiefs are always defending the error based on huge amount of money that is usually allocated to these sector but again its cotton clear that the county CEOs lack the capacity and the zeal to handle and manage this crucial sector of health service provision.The chiefs are busy threatening the workers with either show course letters or dismissal letters.
For instance Laikipia county recently sacked 61 doctors for striking after their salaries were delayed and the working conditions were worsening.
My home county Kitui has a looming strike after the county assembly failed to approve supplementary budget to pay the county staffs.
Kirinyaga county chief has been on several occasion at war with the county medical team with climax being dismissal of involved officers.
Clearly this thing of devolving health sector is not working .The only honorable thing that can the county chiefs can do is to surrender the health docket to the national government otherwise nyasi itaendelea kuumia therefore the huge sums you siphon from this docket will continue to be used to support burial arrangement and pay off overseas hospital bills.