Setting up the health commission requires amendment of the Constitution, health workers have been told. The Senate health committee chaired by Senator Jackson Mandago said there is an authority established to advise counties and the national government on matters that affect health workers. Mandago said the nation has a shortage of health workers but it must have a sober plan on how to recruit more. “We have insufficient health workers not that we don’t have the skills but resources to hire them are not there,” Mandago said. “There has been a misunderstanding that has been around that the work of counties is to recruit workers.

Source: Daily Nation May 18, 2023 04:27 UTC