Hard-to-tell DIFFERENCE FOR MOST KENYANS WHO HAVE BEEN ATTENDED TO BY THE HANDS OF MEDICAL OFFICERS OR CLINICAL OFFICERS.

A white dustcoat, a stethoscope dangling around the neck, a writing pad on the table and a pen in hand.
Clinical officers site live question is Are you being attended to by a doctor or a clinical officer?
This is often a hard-to-tell difference for most Kenyans who have been attended to by the meticulous hands of clinical officers.
Doctors and clinical officers in a health institution show similar medicine technical know-how and professional skills.
Clinical officers are health professionals train in diploma comprising clinical medicine and surgery for three years and one year mandatory internship, upon which they are registered and licensed under the Clinical Officers Council, which is also their professional regulatory body.

MEDICINE
Clinical officers are registered in accordance to a law reviewed on June 2017.
There are about 20,000 registered clinical officers in the country.
Of these, 7,757 clinical officers are working under the national and county governments while another estimated 600 work on government capacity building programmes in NGOs.

A higher level of clinical officer undergoes clinical medicine for five years and one year of internship.

PERSONNEL
With this, they can perform caesarean section and minimal intrusive surgery, such as circumcisions.
They are also qualified to offer orthopedic services.

The higher diploma cadre of clinical officers creates a pool of specialised health officials.

They work as consultants in fields such as oncology, paediatrics, dermatology, ophthalmology, anaesthesia, obstetrics and gynaecology, nephrology.
They also render services in chronic illness and management such as diabetes and hypertension.

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