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Health Workers CLINICAL OFFICERS IN KENYA THREATEN TO STRIKE By Suleiman Ndoro (Dr Audi) After the stalling of their negotiations of their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) has threatened to go on strike. The KUCO is demanding risk and call allowances raised from Ksh 3,000 and Ksh 10,000 to Ksh 30,000 and Ksh 70,000. They also want health workers’ allowances raised from Ksh 20,000 to Ksh 30,000. The union also wants the government to employ additional 4,700 clinical officers and an improved comprehensive medical cover. The KUCO Chairman Peterson Wachira cited a lack of cooperation from the Ministry of Labour as a reason that will drive members to industrial action. #clinical officers #KUCO #medwaxmediagroup

MEDICAL MAN CRUSH MONDAY (MMCM) Meet the JKUAT medical student who is also a stylist and designer. Ali Amin Tifow. On our first episode of Medical Achievers on the theme of Motivational Monday, we are blessed to have Ali Amin Tifow, a medical student and also a stylist and designer. Read his interview with Dr Audi below and get to know what he does more. DR AUDI: Tell us about yourself? TIFOW: My name is Amin Ali Tifow. I am a tall, social and friendly comrade of Somali origin and I   come from Nairobi Dagoretti area. I am a stylist and designer and the winner of male designer of the year in the JKUSA awards that were done this year. DR AUDI: Which course are you doing? Where and which year are you in? TIFOW: I am a third year student pursuing Bachelor of Science in Clinical Medicine at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology. DR AUDI: You are a Bsc Clinical medicine student; tell us more about your course? TIFOW: Briefly i...

MY UNHEALTHY FAMILY SULEIMAN NDORO JNR (DR AUDI) I am scared. I checked the definition of health according to the World Health Organization and I got scared. Everyone in my family is unhealthy. The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in its 1948 constitution as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The truth is that no one has a chronic illness in my family. There’s no one with a malignancy or a non-communicable chronic disease. Physical well being is the most visible of all visible of all dimensions of health. It is crystal clear to me of how my family members are physically unhealthy. The absence of physical health is contributing to my family being mentally and socially unhealthy. My family is unhealthy. I know you are asking how? Let me start with my father. My father is a very busy county government employee. He works and overworks a lot. He never gets ...