The Citizen Voice

 The KMPDU officials led by the Nyanza Branch Chairman Dr. Kevin Osuri{third left} and the County Government of Kisumu officials led by CEC in charge of Health and Sanitation Prof. Judith Atyang during a joint press conference today in Kisumu-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo By Dickson Odhiambo December 30, 2019. Kisumu Medics agree to return to work but say CBA must be fully implemented. Doctors in Public Health facilities in Kisumu County have agreed to go back to work after calling off their strike but insist that their Collective Bargaining Agreement of 2017 and the Return to Work Agreement signed this year in June must be fully implemented as they are. In joint press conference today in Kisumu that has been attended by the Kisumu County Government officials led by CEC in charge of Health and Sanitation Prof Judy Atyang and the two officials of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union Dr. Kevin Osuri and Dr. Lameck Omweri , the medic...

Arch Bishop Dr. Winnie Owiti of the Voice of Salvation and Healing Church International at her office in Kisumu.The Clergy has called for dialogue on the issue of the current Doctors' strike in Kisumu-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo.  By Dickson Odhiambo December 27, 2019. Clergy calls for dialogue on the issue of Kisumu Doctors’ Strike.     THERE should be constructive dialogue between the County Government of Kisumu and the striking Doctors, a clergy has said. Arch Bishop of the Voice of Salvation and Healing Church International Dr. Winnie Owiti says the spirit of negotiations should be embraced between the two parties so as to help in unlocking the current stalemate that has seen doctors striking. Addressing the press at her office within the Church’s Headquarters in Kisumu, Arch Bishop Owiti said the church has realized that a number of people in Kisumu County are suffering and they don’t have money to visit private hospitals after the Doct...

 The Late Appellate Judge Justice James Otieno Odek who was found dead last week at his apartment in Kisumu-Photo Courtesy  By Dickson Odhiambo December 24, 2019 Postmortem reveals Judge Odek died of blood clot on the right leg THE Late Court of Appeal Judge Prof. James Otieno Odek might have died as a result of blood clot in his right leg, a postmortem has revealed. A Postmortem that has been conducted today on the body of the deceased lying at Aga Khan Hospital Mortuary has revealed that blood clot in the vein on the Judge’s right leg dislodged and choked the heart when the vein got unblocked. Addressing the press after conducting the autopsy, Chief Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor said the postmortem report shows that the judge died suddenly that emanates from the blood clot in the vein of his right leg. He says this then caused the sudden death of the deceased, adding that the cause of death is Pulmonary Thromboembolism. He...