{"id":24024,"date":"2024-04-08T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/ps-muthoni-urges-doctors-to-accept-the-governments-offer\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:03:09","slug":"ps-muthoni-urges-doctors-to-accept-the-governments-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ps-muthoni-urges-doctors-to-accept-the-governments-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"PS Muthoni urges doctors to accept the government\u2019s offer\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-1\">\n<p><strong>Principal Secretary public Health Mary Muthoni has called on the striking doctors to accept the government\u2019s offer as the Health Ministry pushes to find a lasting solution for the ongoing healthcare challenges in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government says it cannot meet the doctors\u2019 demands due to financial constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Thika after attending a church service Muthoni also emphasized on the need to digitize health services to help streamline the healthcare delivery in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, President William Ruto told doctors to understand that there is a limit to what the government can spend on their salaries and allowances.<\/p>\n<p>Saying the government values the work doctors and interns play in the health sector, the President pointed out that the country cannot continue to live beyond its means.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe resources we have are only sufficient to pay Ksh 70,000 for intern doctors. This is not a salary; it is a stipend for only one year. Afterwards, they will be employed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The President explained that the government has the funds needed to absorb all the 1,500 doctor interns at Ksh 70,000 a month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/ps-muthoni-urges-doctors-to-accept-the-governments-offer\/\">PS Muthoni urges doctors to accept the government\u2019s offer\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Secretary public Health Mary Muthoni has called on the striking doctors to accept the government\u2019s offer as the Health Ministry pushes to find a lasting solution for the ongoing healthcare challenges in the country. The government says it cannot meet the doctors\u2019 demands due to financial constraints. Speaking in Thika after attending a church [&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-24024","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\/24024","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=24024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}