Governor Irungu Kang’at has fired all medical superintendents in Murang’a County pending a mandatory internal suitability test.
In a statement, the governor said he has decided to make reforms in the health sector, among them introducing 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.
Further, the governor said the assessment 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.
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“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.”
"At the renewal stage, a client satisfaction survey will be conducted to determine the necessity of renewal,” read part of the statement.
In addition, the governor gave Dr Mbugua a month to automate systems in all medical facilities in the county 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,” he said.
