Six stormy years and the audacity to confront a challenging future: taking stock of the Kenyan Doctors’ Union

The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) was formed in August 2011. Within the last six years, this union has galvanized the Kenyan doctors together, agitated for healthcare policy reforms and successfully negotiated and registered a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CB...

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Autores principales: Mwenda, Aruyaru Stanley, Muturi, Alex, Oluga, Fredrick Ouma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018
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Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6430841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30918558
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.31.31.16153
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description The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) was formed in August 2011. Within the last six years, this union has galvanized the Kenyan doctors together, agitated for healthcare policy reforms and successfully negotiated and registered a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). Though political will and the national citizens' psyche on matters pertaining to public healthcare remain a challenge, this union has made its foot prints on the Kenyan conversation space. KMPDU looks forward to engaging local, regional and international health stake holders to improve the state of the country's health care, key among these being to have a national commission handling all the human resources for health.
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spelling pubmed-64308412019-03-27 Six stormy years and the audacity to confront a challenging future: taking stock of the Kenyan Doctors’ Union Mwenda, Aruyaru Stanley Muturi, Alex Oluga, Fredrick Ouma Pan Afr Med J Opinion The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) was formed in August 2011. Within the last six years, this union has galvanized the Kenyan doctors together, agitated for healthcare policy reforms and successfully negotiated and registered a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). Though political will and the national citizens' psyche on matters pertaining to public healthcare remain a challenge, this union has made its foot prints on the Kenyan conversation space. KMPDU looks forward to engaging local, regional and international health stake holders to improve the state of the country's health care, key among these being to have a national commission handling all the human resources for health. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2018-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6430841/ /pubmed/30918558 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.31.31.16153 Text en © Aruyaru Stanley Mwenda et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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