Dr. Ouma Oluga, OGW
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I help people understand, navigate & participate in African healthcare systems. Kenyan Patriot. Healthcare Leader. Public Speaker. Physician MD. Unionist. More.
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A medic helping a protestor who was shot has also been shot.
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Nairobi CBD has more than 5 million people.
Thousands have been injured.
Several shot dead.
Medics overwhelmed.
KNH now accepting only gun shot injuries.
A country can’t continue like this.
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Frame 1: A school in Turkana Central Constituency:
Frame 2: Official Residence of Deputy President.
MP for Turkana Central where Frame 1 is taken voted Yes to the Finance Bill 2024 so that House in Frame 2 can be renovated for Kshs 660 million only.
When residents chased him
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You strangulate young students to death in quarries then turn around asking for a dialogue with the young people.
That rotten value system is exactly what must change. That’s the whole issue with Kenya.
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They trashed the intern doctors.
Then they trashed the JSS teachers.
They are now trashing all the young people.
Sawa tu!
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An estimated 25 million Kenyans were out in the streets in various parts of the country protesting the Finance Bill 2024.
But the Kenyan MPs chose to please ONE person while their constituents were being headshot right outside the same building they were passing the bill.
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We blame young people for not doing enough.
Then we block any possible path for their progress.
Then we blackmail them for raising their voices online.
Then we unleash violence on them when they come out to protest.
Because we want them to pay millions they don’t have to take
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Kenya is really cruel for the forthright professional.
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Whenever the state sponsors violence against peaceful people on the streets, the loser is still the state. History is replete.
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Some Kenyans elected a governor who died in 2008.
This country needs a value system reset.
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We are at Parklands Police Station to report the abduction of
@Dr_AustinOmondi
.
If the guy is not released by midnight, health workers all over the country will go to all police stations, DCI offices and NIS offices to look for him.
LSK & health unions have ordered us.
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Clinton Mariera stormed the memorial sermon this afternoon at All Saints Cathedral demanding Justice.
He lost his friend Kogi shot to death by police during peaceful protests.
His message was clear: stop praying for peace amidst injustice. Pray and demand for Justice instead.
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Sounds like a blackmail.
But what is the point of tourists visiting a country that values wild animals more than its youth?
When you burn tyres on the road and say Ruto must go, tourists will decide to visit Zanzibar or South Africa instead of visiting here - Amason Kingi
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Hon. Wetangula, the Speaker, has shown extreme lack of wisdom. If anything, he could have proved a moment of his own leadership even when majority MPs were blind.
Now he has approved Military deployment because MPs can’t and won’t listen to the people who elected them. Their own
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Bumped into the eloquent and talented Kasmuel McOure
@_KasKazini
during today’s memorial concert at Uhuru Park.
He still has clean tie, three piece suits and a long list of stuff you Kenyans must bring down.
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Then their children come back for white collar executive jobs in government while our children are ferried abroad by the same government to clean houses and lay bricks after being denied education.
This doesn’t sit well.
we refuse to fund politicians' children's education abroad while our children endure poor quality public schools.
#RejectFinanceBill2024
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So a dad will be convicted for trying to smuggle a baby out of KNH because he could not afford Kshs 56,000/-.
But we will still go about our business as a country and clap for our politicians when they read their 'Maternity is Free' speeches.
Bewitched Country.
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Let us create a new country. The old one is a prison to most Kenyans.
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A ripe boil will painfully burst without any squeeze.
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I've read and read without powers.
Today, the University of Nairobi has officially confered on me the powers to read and do anything that appertains to MMed.
Unmerited God's Grace, family & colleagues' support while juggling multiple roles got me here.
Very Grateful.
@vcuonbi
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Dear Kenyans,
When you wear a mask, fully cover your nose & mouth.
You can sing, talk, shout, breathe and even be silent while the mask FULLY covers your nose & mouth.
The only time the nose and mouth are not covered is when you are eating in which case it is not in public.
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The old method of handling all important issues in Kenya is activated.
Trivialize, Tribalize, Transact.
Down with that dogma.
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Last night while flying from Istanbul to Nairobi, myself and 3 Kenyan doctors had the extraordinary privilege to respond to that unusual call from the pilot: 'If you are a doctor, kindly identify yourself.'
And God made a success out of our presence.
Noble Profession in deed.
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Hapa hata Nuru Okanga apigiwe makofi.
Let’s not normalize mediocrity.
However good you’ve been, after 40 years of public service you have no new ideas to offer a country whose median age is 19 years.
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They deny you education.
They deny you employment.
Then they laugh at you for not having an iPhone, bottle of water and KFC manofu.
Go, call or text your pastor not to allow such a criminal in the church.
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The arrogance the President apologized for isn’t gone. In fact, it is back like nothing happened.
Moi is a passing cloud
Ruto must go
History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes
Eleven vice presidents
Only the two completed the distance and succeded the predecessor
History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes
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Please ensure you get vaccinated before you leave Azimio La Umoja. We have enough vaccines for everyone and enough vaccination points at Kasarani Stadium. That way you become part of protecting the health of Kenya.
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Nobody needed to die for this and much more to happen. We demand justice!
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Police picked Dr. Brandon Chacha right outside Crescent Medical Centre in Nairobi CBD.
With evidence that he is dressed in work attire, helping ONLY with medical emergencies, fully registered and licensed dr, they’ve locked him up at Central Police Station.
@WHO
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My colleagues currently leading
@kmpdu
should realize that the issues fronted for
#OccupyMoH
go beyond labour struggles. They are also health governance issues.
The interns have suffered immeasurable 2 years of loss and damage waiting for posting, clinical officers are still on
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Who has noticed that Kenyatta National Hospital is no longer congested?
Well, over 160,000 patients who would otherwise go to KNH have been attended to in 15 newly established hospitals in the last 6 months.
Public healthcare is possible!
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The politicians have joined forces against the young people’s movement for a transformed country. It was expected.
Our idea of a new reality of Kenya is possible. Let’s not be distracted.
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Young people are very informed.
Very angry and done with nonsense.
Wamesema wale ambao wanaharibu nchi wajidishi.
Claiming back the country.
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Revealing himself and their position.
We want you uneducated, dirt poor and short of breath.
The Gen Zs protesting use iPhones, arrive in Ubers for the protests and go to KFC afterwards to eat chicken - Kimani Ichung'wah
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It is very disheartening the humiliation our government puts Medical Drs through.
This is the reason
@kmpdu
keeps advocating that the Kenyan Govt must employ all doctors in order that every Kenyan has access to medical care & that they are not driven to such illicit activities.
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It is extremely mental how the people in power demand that we must love them for:
1. Not Implementing the Drs’ CBA/posting interns.
2. Not paying JSS teachers.
3. Increasing University fees for the poor.
4. Exporting youth abroad for slavery jobs.
5. Showing lavish opulence
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To All Media Houses and Leaders addressing press,
Please have sign language interpreters during coverage for COVID 19 so that we do not exclude our brothers and sisters living with disabilities from vital information.
Just a messenger.
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In 2016/2017 while negotiating the CBA, they used to call us boys. Same language as ‘our children’.
The point is to make you look smaller, lesser and undeserving of saying anything.
Let alone demanding.
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We won’t forget the demand for Justice for those who were needlessly and brutally murdered by the police just so that the Cabinet can be dissolved.
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General Mwathethe is a good man. I met him only once and that once I did, he accepted to partner with KMPDU by accepting to airlift 80 doctors for a medical camp in Turkana.
We ended up treating 6000 people doing upto 87 surgeries in two days.
Best Wishes as He Retires frm KDF.
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Maranda School has qualified 618 students from the 2019 KCSE to join Universities.
Even though the number of As is 19 (still commendable), Maranda remains one of the most society wide impactful schools.
Congratulations to Staff & Students.
Managing 705 Finalists not easy task.
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Even if I were to travel and got stranded at JKIA, I would still poise to say Viva Aviation Workers.
There is a tendency of disrespect meted on Kenyan Workers in the last few years.
Doctors, Teachers, Nurses, Lecturers, and Aviation Workers.
It may be time for MEGA UNITY.
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Burrows was belittling Kasmuel’s point.
For the respect of those who showed up on the autopsy table having been killed in cold-blood by police, she shouldn’t have interrupted Kasmuel.
This country has a way of using media to try sweep under the carpet serious issues.
One of
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Please,
If you haven’t gone to school, keep off matters above your comprehension.
Just join the Kenyans in the ‘akili ndogo, ukora mingi’ development crusade.
Please.
A medical intern wants to be paid KES 206,989 per month!
But we have medical doctors at entry level earning less than KES 140,000?
Mid-level doctors earning between KES 140,000 and KES 302,000?
Why does KMPDU want to normalize inconsistencies?
Where on earth should an
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Unfortunately, you’re right.
We can’t withstand those MPs for another 3 years. Not possible!
I have listened to the People’s assembly in the twitter space. It is evident the People are not pacified. They want change in Executive and Legislature now. Way out: constitute IEBC ASAP; dissolve Parliament in reliance upon CJ Maraga’s advice; and conduct a general election.
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Coming full cycle, I have just met the officer who transferred 5 of us from Industrial Area Prison to Kamiti Maximum Prison in an Ambulance on that fateful Monday, February 13th 2017.
Quite fortunately, he has brought prison patients to KNH and I'm serving the same patients.
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Can’t these old men of cloth be ashamed for once?
They have been talking on behalf of the youth for years and they have been absolutely wrong.
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An MP’s work is to represent the people and legislate ONLY their views. There is no other law or act superior to this.
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False: Drs are demanding 206K for intern doctors.
True: Drs are protesting the sudden and unlawful REDUCTION of intern doctor salaries from 206K as per CBA to 70,000/- stipend.
Also True: Government has paid 206K in the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Also
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They are ‘listening’ to young people.
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America must be stooping in shame for what their best friend Kenya has turned to before Biden’s blink.
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Justice doesn’t need any dialogue.
This man lying dead outside the Kenyan Parliament is David Chege. He was shot in the head.
He was a Sunday school teacher. He is being buried today but nobody has been held accountable for killing him. No regret, no suspension, no probe, no nothing
📸
@festolang
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A budding medic is brutally murdered outside MTRH. Perpetrator is beaten.
He quickly gets security which the victim didn't get and he gets treated at the same hospital casualty where the victim worked.
Drs at MTRH casualty deserve Humanity Medal Award.
Painful!
#RIPIvy
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Universities stopped worrying where their students live.
Students opted for cheap backroom private hostels.
Students then asked for security. None was forthcoming from the police and Universities.
They rioted for being killed, raped, maimed by thugs.
Response: Police Brutality.
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The ONLY reason why public hospitals are closed and there seems to be bickering between Council of Governors, SRC, MoH, Treasury and KNUN over a already signed agreement is because all the men and women whose decisions should END THE STRIKE do not use public hospitals. 1/2
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The state is arresting people with whom they disagree and detaining them illegally to test how far Kenyans can tolerate dictatorship. So if you're waiting for magic to stop authoritarian rule, that magic lies with Kenyans. But the same state has divided them.
#FreeMigunaMigunaNow
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Just for raising a voice against bad governance - a constitutional right. How insecure and cruel can anything get?
When Joshua Okayo, the president of Kenya School of Law, was thrown from the boot of a moving vehicle to the ground, he lay by Maragua River in Murang'a County, too weak to move.
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Believe him the first time.
Uproar after MP Farah Maalim says he would have 'slaughtered 5,000 Gen Z protesters daily if I was president'
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Wueh!
This tweet reveals so much about you more than it does about the person and the community you’ve ‘cleverly’ profiled.
90% of Hon Raila's legal team were from Luo Nyanza.
5% of President Elect William Ruto's legal team were Kalenjin.
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Thank you Mr. President.
President Uhuru Kenyatta to Dr. Ouma Oluga: Huyu jamaa tulikuwa tunachapana akiwa kwa union. Baadaye nikamwambia hakuna haja ya kuchapana aje tufanye kazi pamoja
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The people in authority are very entitled. So much so that they don’t believe anyone calling out their bad manners means well for Kenya.
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The fuel levy is already circulation/tax. Proposing another tax and naming it motor vehicle circulation tax is duplication.
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When I was an intern in 2011, we earned 78,000/- and that’s why we formed the union so such kind of things NEVER happen in our lifetime.
The KMPDU was registered on 31st August 2011.
President Kibaki then raised doctor entry (intern) salaries to 141,000/-.
Buana just throw
Govt to medical interns: We can't pay you Sh206,000 salary; take Sh70,000 and make your millions later
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Donating 20 million of taxpayer money every weekend while the youth are jobless, no opening to start careers, no HELB, struggling to push mkokoteni, wheelbarrow, harassed by Kanjo, sexually harassed in skewed job applications, doing odd jobs on Tik Tok are the things that anger
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What is hurting India more is that the public healthcare system is minimally functional in favor of the private healthcare system that was promoted aggressively to earn country revenue.
Pandemic responses rely hugely on government led systems.
Lessons from COVID-19.
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Anyone still doubting the Kenyan police as the architects of killings, violence , destruction of property and looting during maandamano, this week is a surest answer.
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I don’t understand how SRC came to decide that medical interns stipends be at Kshs 50,000/- to 70,000/-.
In 2016/2017, together with SRC we did a thorough job comparing countries of similar economic status, investment in education, complexity of job, value of job in generating
On the ongoing doctor’s strike, my PERSONAL views are:
1. Interns can’t earn 206k when some doctors are starting at 48k - let interns accept SRC rates of 70k, or thereabouts.
2. National Assembly should come up with law requiring levels 4 and above to absorb and pay for interns
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A child died today not because of a disease that couldn't be cured. A child has died today because they went to school to get education.
That very sad news pierces the soul.
Our poor approach to Public Sector has cost several children their lives.
May they Rest in Peace.
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Police officers enforcing the curfew should avoid two things:
1. Violence against wananchi. There may be those who are innocently caught up with time. Police guide, do not beat.
2. Contracting COVID 19 and forcing citizens into crowds as they seek safety thus risking them too.
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The Kenyan Court accepted foreign doctors who also did not have licenses to practice here on the flimsy excuse that the right to health supersedes the right to employment of local drs.
You cannot now turn around to refuse foreign lawyers (prosecutors).
Your day of injustice.
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Pumwani Hospital should be upgraded to a National Referral Maternity Hospital managed by the National Govt.
When Nairobians are done with the theatrical entertainment from their governor, let us discuss soberly.
#PumwaniHospital
@FirstLadyKenya
@SicilyKariuki
@KenyaGovernors
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Muthiora Kariara, I've practiced your name for 90 minutes because I'm proud of you and you represent the best of Kenya.
#DebatesKE
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If your pastor does NOT observe a minute of silence followed by a prayer for the families of Evans Kiratu and Rex Kanyike Masai, get huge padlocks and weld it on the doors and gates of that place.
That’s not a church
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Kenya's largest public hospital wants to build a private hospital.
Doesn't even make sense but this is the kind of nonsense that denies Kenyans fair use of taxes to solve health needs.
KNH to put up Sh15bn seven-storey private hospital via
@BD_Africa
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So there is Cholera in Nairobi but not at Nairobi Hospital which in the Nairobi.
And no patient is affected but one of the their staff has died and another 11 staff are admitted for the same.
Dear Nairobi Hospital, Some things don't require defending. In health, truth reigns.
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The average world IQ is 100.
The average Kenyan IQ is 75.2 ranking Kenya at 145 in the world.
It is said, we only beget ourselves from our own IQ pool even for the most complex of jobs.
So every time you question our decisions as a country, just digest this.
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Out the MoH budget of 127B, prioritize 5B for interns. What should the money do other than sort the young people? Post interns and
#REJECTFINANCEB
İLL2024
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Kenya's unwanted drs may soon find their way to UK hospitals where our political leaders get treated when in need.
The UK just relaxed Visa rules for Drs and Nurses in a bid to boost staffing.
It's not a good thing for our UHC agenda for drs to be pushed out by the system.
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It is not the nurses strike that has been ignored.
It is actually Healthcare that has been ignored.
And by extension the lives of Kenyans.
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Senators including my very good friends
@SenMutula
and
@kipmurkomen
who are responsible for holding Governors accountable to citizens and Devolution are today defending the
@MikeSonko
as private/professional lawyers.
How then can Senators/MPs be against dualism esp for doctors?
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Blacklisted by who? Sisi ndio tuko.
If you told me 1yr ago I'd be doing all this as an intern, I would've told you to stop dreaming. As I join my fellow unemployed doctors mniombee. I've been told I have been blacklisted because of our initiative Medics For Kenyans but we will not relent. We will continue serving
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Cape Town is a very good example of how poverty can silently dominate a super developed city with great infrastructure.
Those who have taken time off the high end malls, the super light streets have seen the squalor that is African lives.
Development isn't just infrastructure
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One time when I was leading healthcare in Nairobi, a then M.P publicly voted against a budget proposal that contained in it improvement of his local health centre.
After a week, he was in my office banging tables why his constituency health centre can’t be prioritized.
An MP sat in parliament through first to third reading of a law that says farmers will pay tax on their cash crops. Today he joined the same farmers to complain about the taxes in a public meeting, even chasing away KRA agents.
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Tumefika hapa Gigiri Police station with
@_KasKazini
and tens of health leaders and lawyers kutafuta
@Dr_AustinOmondi
.
Buana muachilie huyo daktari.
They are tossing us from one police station to the other and from NIS to DCI.
Free
@Dr_AustinOmondi
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Go well Dr. Doreen Adisa Lugaliki.
You enjoyed the practice of gynecology. And then you were just beginning to get deeper into the career that you loved so much.
We shall miss you dearly.
Deep Condolences to the entire medical fraternity, friends and the family.
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A little Shocker here.
You’ve probably heard 206K a bit too much because the government kept drumming the figure in an attempt to ‘make doctors look greedy’.
The shocker is that only 112 doctor interns have been earning 206K for the past 7 years being gross pay.
Here is why:
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