{"id":126073,"date":"2025-12-05T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/19-doctors-in-garissa-finally-get-permanent-and-pensionable-terms-after-county-kmpdu-talks\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:05:13","slug":"19-doctors-in-garissa-finally-get-permanent-and-pensionable-terms-after-county-kmpdu-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/19-doctors-in-garissa-finally-get-permanent-and-pensionable-terms-after-county-kmpdu-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Doctors in Garissa finally get Permanent and Pensionable Terms After County\u2013KMPDU Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 5 \u2013 Garissa County has agreed to confirm 19 doctors, currently on two-year contracts to Permanent and Pensionable terms once their contracts expire next year.<\/p>\n<p>This was among key resolutions reached in a meeting between Governor Nathif Jama and Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists &amp; Dentists Union (KMPDU) officials.<\/p>\n<p>The county also committed to re-designating 20 doctors who have stagnated in Job Group M, with new Job Group Q letters to be issued by December 17th, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 19 doctors have been released for postgraduate studies, six for fellowship programmes, and recruitment of eight more doctors is underway.<\/p>\n<p>KMPDU Secretary-General Davji Atellah is expected to lead officials to visit Garissa later this month to follow up on the agreements.<\/p>\n<p>On union dues, the County Finance Department was directed to engage with the KMPDU Accounts Office to ensure the timely remittance of all deducted union dues.<\/p>\n<p>Attellah acknowledged that Garissa County is progressing well toward the recruitment of 8 additional doctors within this financial year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Dec 5 \u2013 Garissa County has agreed to confirm 19 doctors, currently on two-year contracts to Permanent and Pensionable terms once their contracts expire next year. This was among key resolutions reached in a meeting between Governor Nathif Jama and Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists &amp; Dentists Union (KMPDU) officials. The county also committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}