Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) is set to hire more than 1,400 health care workers to boost provision of health services in the capital. In June, NMS recruited 225 health workers as part of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s May 21 announcement that the national government will hire an additional 5,000 health workers in the intensified war on Covid-19. The recruitment of the health workers who included doctors, nurses and clinical officers hired on three-year contracts was aimed at addressing the shortage of health workers in Nairobi. “When we took over from City Hall we noted that indeed there is a shortage of health workers and many hospitals relied on locum. Before the county health services was transferred to NMS, City Hall said it only had 3,300 health workers inclusive of cleaners and drivers at the time health services were handed over to NMS.

Source: Daily Nation October 29, 2020 05:26 UTC