The Nairobi Hospital board of administration has secured a courtroom order stopping house owners of the well being facility from circulating a discover calling for his or her elimination from workplace.
The order issued by the Milimani Industrial Chief Justice of the Peace Court docket affords reduction to the board, which has come underneath sharp criticism from a piece of the Kenya Hospital Affiliation (KHA), the membership physique that owns Nairobi Hospital.
“The defendants/respondents, their brokers, servants, workers and/or anybody performing on their behalf from circulating or disseminating, annexing, additional publishing on any media, together with social media platforms resembling WhatsApp, Fb, Instagram, Twitter or another social media pages and/or counting on the identical earlier than any public boards or conferences, whether or not of the members of Kenya Hospital Affiliation at an additional bizarre assembly, particular basic assembly or annual basic assembly whether or not performed just about, bodily or via public platforms or defamatory statements forwarded via any communication channels together with the letter dated 2nd August 2024 on behalf of the Defendant/Respondents or any individual performing on their behalf or directions,” reads the courtroom order issued on August 15.
Dr Chris Bichage, Nairobi Hospital board of administration chairman, sued the KHA for defamation following allegations made in a discover calling for the elimination of board members. The discover served on August 2, 2024, sparked controversy throughout the organisation.
The go well with named 363 members of KHA as defendants within the case.
“Depart is granted to the plaintiff to impact service of the appliance and pleadings via substituted service within the newspaper with nationwide protection and circulation and email correspondence in gentle of the big variety of respondents for inter-partes listening to subsequent month.
“Take discover that any disobedience of the order of the courtroom served herewith will end in penal penalties to you and another individual(s) disobeying and never observing the identical,” directs the order.
KHA had referred to as for a rare basic assembly to take away 13 administrators from the board, citing a lack of confidence of their management.
In a petition addressed to the board of KHA, members of the requisition group listed the administrators, together with Chairman Chris Bichage and Vice Chairman Philemon Mwaisaka, alleging that that they had failed of their authorized and fiduciary duties to the corporate and its pursuits.
“The cited failures of the board embrace however usually are not restricted to collectively passing of resolutions to simply accept and difficulty tenders opposite to the hospital’s procurement guide, to be financed by offshore borrowing of astronomical sums estimated at Sh2 billion, utilizing the corporate’s belongings collateral with out informing or acquiring the approval of the members, with out contemplating different financing, thereby jeopardising the corporate’s belongings and the existence of the corporate ought to the corporate be unable to repay the astronomical proposed load,” reads the petition that was drafted by the KHA requisition committee.
