The County government of narok has raised salaries for doctors who are working in county referral hospital. The county government has taken steps to retain doctors who are moving from public to private hospitals.
Governor Samuel Tunai said the pay raise would also boost the staff’s morale and improve service delivery at public health institutions. Mr Tunai said specialist doctors were still unavailable because the public service offers less pay compared with the private sector.
“The doctors were at first opposed to being devolved. As a county, we have maintained the salaries and benefits they used to get from the national government. We will continue doing our best to retain them,” said Mr Tunai.
He spoke during a tour of the Narok County Referral Hospital.
Doctors in the private sector earn a gross monthly salary of between Sh120,000 and Sh150,000. Their counterparts at public hospitals in the county will now receive Sh110,000 (Job GroupL) and Sh136,000 (Job Group M). Senior doctors
in Job Group N will earn Sh155,000.
Mr Tunai said health services in the county had improved after his government employed more than 240 health workers, hired 11 ambulances from the Kenya Red Cross Society and opened
He said he had entered into a partnership with the national government to provide health equipment, adding that some donors, including the Kenya Commercial Bank, would donate dialysis machines.
The Health Ministry announced that it would equip 94 hospitals, two in each county, with cancer equipment to ensure that patients who need them are attended to.
A total of 245 dialysis machines are set to be installed at county hospitals at a cost of Sh2.2 billion. The move by the ministry will see cancer patients get free treatment once the equipment is in place.
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