Nairobi Hospital board orders austerity measures amid rising costs The hospital’s new board moves swiftly to contain costs after financial ratios slip into the red. Health 7 min ago
The Nairobi Hospital has suspended new recruitment, international travel, and non-clinical staff training with immediate effect following a directive from its Board of Management warning that operating costs have "outgrown what our revenue can sustainably support." Beyond these specific freezes, the Board has directed senior managers to review discretionary spending across procurement, overtime, contracted services, utilities, meetings, and consultancy, testing every expense against one question: Is it essential, necessary now, and demonstrably beneficial to the hospital?
Addressing claims that the hospital is spending more than it earns, Osano said the hospital makes an average of Sh1 billion in monthly revenue and recorded Sh1.
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