The proposed Kenya Health Human Resource Advisory Council to be anchored in law will manage all human resource matters in the public health sector. The creation of such an agency has been a central demand by health workers since the debut of devolution and the cause of numerous health workers strikes. Presidential assentTheir central argument was that health, including management of health workers are devolved functions protected by the Constitution and could not be taken away. Contested issuesThe Health Bill passed by Parliament on May 25 and, now awaiting Presidential assent, is the fruit of this process. The long awaited Health Bill, first drafted in 2010, during the coalition government, is the central law that will guide the entire health sector in the county.

Source: Standard Digital June 10, 2017 21:00 UTC