Kenyans have raised concerns after a University that Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha’s claims to have acquired her Pharmacy degree denies offering the same.
According to Susan Nakhumicha’s sentiments, she did a degree in pharmacy from the EGE university in Turkey, a programme she claims she did online while working as a retail pharmacist.
“After KMTC, I managed to get a job in one of the pharmaceutical retail company as a pharmacist where I worked for a period of time. During that time, I was also doing a degree in pharmacy, online degree from EGE university in Turkey, where I completed.”
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However, reports circulating indicate that the university doesn’t offer pharmaceutical course through online learning as claimed by the Health Cabinet Secretary.
According to an email written by an anonymous kenyan requesting for clarification over the same, the university responded with a brief detail saying that they don’t offer a pharmaceutical course online.
“Unfortunately, our faculty of pharmacy does not give any online education.”
This comes as push and pull between the Ministry of Health led by the Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha and the doctors who are demanding that interns be posted as soon as possible and be paid their stipends amicably.
The CS has however mantained that interns have not been categorised as employees and therefore they were not entitled to remuneration as per the demands of the doctors who are currently on strike.
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She insisted that the 2017 CBA which allowed intern doctors to receive Ksh206,000 could not be fully implemented because of the increase in the number of graduates who have since been posted as interns.
“We need to open the conversation that would lead to the implementation of any deal signed between the Government and the medical practitioners.”