{"id":142854,"date":"2026-06-02T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kirinyaga-assures-uninterrupted-hospital-services-plans-health-workers-promotions\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:02:57","slug":"kirinyaga-assures-uninterrupted-hospital-services-plans-health-workers-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kirinyaga-assures-uninterrupted-hospital-services-plans-health-workers-promotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirinyaga assures uninterrupted hospital services, plans health workers\u2019 promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirinyaga County Government says it is addressing all labour issues raised by health workers and has availed a budget for promotions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Addressing media at the Kerugoya County Referral Hospital, Chief Officer for Medical Services, Public Health and Sanitation Dr. Muriithi Nyaga said budget proposal for the promotion and re-designations has already been forwarded to the county assembly for approval.<\/p>\n

Muriithi further dispel fear of interruption of services due to a planned work go-slow by a section of the health workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe County Government of Kirinyaga has noted the intended go-slow by a section of health workers. It wishes to address the concerns raised, while assuring the public that health service delivery across the county will remain uninterrupted,\u201d Muriithi said.<\/p>\n

Further, the Chief Officer said the County Government had onboarded 237 casual employees into the integrated county payroll system, issued personal numbers and their salary arrears paid in full. He said 138 casuals are at different stages of verification for issuance of personal numbers.<\/p>\n

He regretted the delay in payment of salaries for the casuals due to the long process of getting them into\u00a0Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and errors contained in identification documents submitted by some of the workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe County Government of Kirinyaga deeply values the contributions of healthcare workers and remains committed to constructive engagement to address workplace concerns. Such engagement must follow due process and utilise legally recognised representative structures,\u201d he reiteriated.<\/p>\n

Muriithi said the exercise to streamline the management of casual wages has been ongoing for the last three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn line with a national directive to streamline the County Government has initiated the process of onboarding casual workers into the integrated county payroll system, which has now replaced the manual payment of wages,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Chief Officer said all public medical facilities in Kirinyaga have adequate supplies of medical supplies to support effective service delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn April, the County Government placed a major order for medicines and medical supplies through KEMSA, supplemented by procurement from local suppliers for items unavailable through KEMSA. As a result, public health facilities across the county are currently well stocked with essential medicines and supplies,\u201d Muriithi said.<\/p>\n

Kirinyaga County Assembly Health Committee Chairman Bosco Gichangi asked a section of politicians to stop politicizing and inciting health issues and inciting workers against their employer.<\/p>\n

Gichangi who was accompanied by some members of the committee said the issue of promotion of health workers was in the final stage of being resolved with the committee already having received budget proposals from the executive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm that we received the budget proposal from the executive two weeks ago and we are in the process of looking at it before it is tabled for approval by the whole house,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Kirinyaga County Government says it is addressing all labour issues raised by health workers and has availed a budget for promotions. Addressing media at the Kerugoya County Referral Hospital, Chief Officer for Medical Services, Public Health and Sanitation Dr. Muriithi Nyaga said budget proposal for the promotion and re-designations has already been forwarded to the […]<\/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-142854","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\/142854","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=142854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}