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<\/div>Garissa Governor Ali Korane<\/strong>.[Elvis Ogina , Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Governor\u00a0Ali\u00a0Korane\u00a0has threatened to lay off some workers at the Garissa Referral Hospital, accusing them of lacking commitment.\n<\/p>\n Despite being allocated huge amounts of money, Mr\u00a0Korane\u00a0said it had nothing to show for it. He said he would no longer sit and watch as the county\u2019s biggest referral hospital was mismanaged. <\/p>\n However the medics dared him to make good his threat, accusing the\u00a0governor\u00a0of starving the facility of much needed funds.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Last week,\u00a0Korane\u00a0made an impromptu visit to the facility following uproar over appalling conditions. The\u00a0governor\u00a0found the hospital in a deplorable state; without essential drugs and basic requirements such as bandages.<\/p>\n The standard<\/em>\u00a0learnt that for the last three years, the laboratory has had no reagents, meaning it cannot perform basic examinations.\n<\/p>\n Patients buy gloves, cotton wool, cord clamps. They are also sent to have tests done at the mushrooming private clinics adjacent to the hospital.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I saw there is a complete institutional collapse but I can assure you it\u2019s not a resource problem, just last week we allocated them Sh26 million; it\u2019s strange the hospital lacked even soap,\u201d said the\u00a0governor. <\/p>\n He was speaking after distributing bursaries to students.\n<\/p>\n He accused the National Treasury of delaying his funds, pushing his administration to fund the facility with monies meant for \u2018other purposes\u2019.\n<\/p>\n However, Dr Hassan Abdi, the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union representative Northeastern branch, told the\u00a0governor\u00a0to stop giving excuses and honour their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The union official threatened to issue a strike notice in a few weeks if the CBA was not honoured.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Garissa Governor Ali Korane.[Elvis Ogina , Standard] Governor\u00a0Ali\u00a0Korane\u00a0has threatened to lay off some workers at the Garissa Referral Hospital, accusing them of lacking commitment. Despite being allocated huge amounts of money, Mr\u00a0Korane\u00a0said it had nothing to show for it. He said he would no longer sit and watch as the county\u2019s biggest referral hospital was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}