Murang’a governor Irungu Kang’ata has fired all medical superintendents in the county pending an internal suitability test.
Dr Kang’ata, in a statement on Tuesday, said his government has decided to make reforms in the health sector, among them the introduction of a mandatory test in deploying medical superintendents.
As a result, the county boss directed all medical superintendents to step down with effect from September 7.
“The chief officer in charge of health will issue a notice tomorrow inviting applications for doctors interested to act as medical superintendents in respective hospitals,” Kang’ata said.
The assessment, the governor said, will be conducted by a committee in consultation with the office of the county secretary and the County Executive Committee (CEC) Member for Health, Dr Fredrick Mbugua.
“The top three doctors will then undergo an oral examination before a committee to be constituted by the chief officer of health and county secretary. The successful candidate will serve for a one-year renewable term,” reads the statement.
“At the renewal stage, a client satisfaction survey will be conducted to determine the necessity of renewal.”
At the same time, Dr Kang’ata gave Dr Mbugua a month to automate systems in all medical facilities in the county in a bid to address complaints of lack of medicine in the facilities.
“Dr Fredrick Mbugua and all other senior officers of that department have one month from today to automate all 157 medical facilities (dispensaries; health centres and all hospitals) failure to which the Executive will consider taking appropriate action against each of them,” said the governor.
