Dr. Mercy Nabwire, KMPDU National Treasurer

Hello Comrade Doctors,

It is with a deep sense of honour and privilege that I accept your overwhelming support.

I want to thank all doctors for your vote of confidence in my leadership and persona. An overwhelming majority vote to an individual contestant is a resounding vote of Confidence.

The work now begins.

I appreciate all my worthy colleagues and competitors, decorum, professionalism and restraint you have exhibited has left our profession with pride and high esteem.

Let us now join hands and build our union together for the better.

I congratulate all doctors who have been declared winners in various KMPDU offices. We are now a team, ready to serve doctors and Kenyans at large.

Last but not least, my campaign team has spent all they could to ensure we get here. I am forever grateful to all of you; individually and collectively. Thank you so much for your sacrifices and belief in me and my vision.

This is OUR Victory,
The Doctors have Won
KMPDU has won.

Salus Populis Suprema Lex Esto.

Dr. Mercy Nabwire
KMPDU National Treasurer

Key Pillars

I would like to establish and entrench financial controls and best practices in our union. This is to enhance financial accountability of all the offices, financial reporting and prudent utilization of the scarce union resources at all times.

The Union has scarce resources in all aspects and so many pressing needs that need to be addressed.

I will be focusing on how to develop and maintain functional partnerships locally and globally in order to tap into resources available outside our KMPDU.

This is something I have experience in and have done it in a smaller scale so far for both the branch and the national KMPDU levels.

The union exists in the society where the call for inclusivity and involvement for the youth, women and people with disability including all other minority and/or vulnerable groups is needed constantly. We cannot ignore this type of action in KMPDU.

I will definitely become the champion, voice and advocate of these groups in our organization. This is critical in developing an all-inclusive KMPDU for now and the future.

The union needs to be a voice on matters labour policy and other policies in the health sector. Our members need a platform to shine and be known locally and internationally on the many things they have been doing and continue to do.

I hope to create space within the union for members to do research, develop materials and have publications of greater use in Kenya and the world. The key deliverables will be Studies, Publications and productions of periodicals.

I will champion the union’s focus on development of individual members through training, membership empowerment programs and other capacity development techniques that will solidify the knowledge, involvement and engagement of union members in the matters of the union and for self-growth to each member.

The primary role of the union and its astute officials is to champion for the well being of the members.

I will be on the frontline to agitate, negotiate and fight for the better terms of service and working conditions for all doctors in Kenya.

My resolve is that healthcare is a right hence must be optimally provided to all patients and the doctors must be employed, facilitated and allowed to have the best working conditions to support life of both the patients and healthcare workers at all times.

Together I believe that we shall contribute immensely in steering Kenya to a better healthcare provision.

About Dr. Mercy Nabwire

Dr. Mercy has over 12 years of experience in Pharmacy. She is focused, determined, deeply committed. She is very passionate about health and human welfare. Over the period she has demonstrated her passion by actively participating in training, research, and leadership in the medical field both in Kenya and Internationally. Most of her work contribution to various fields in medicine has been on Diabetes and Cancer as well as Gynaecological and Obstetric matters. She has been very instrumental in matters of Industrial Relations Practices in the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists & Dentists Union (KMPDU). She is a qualified trainer. She is currently a pharmacist at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital Riley Mother and Baby Hospital Eldoret as well as a lecturer in the same institution. She is also a health workers’ trainer in Kakamega, Vihiga, and Uasin Gishu and The Branch Treasurer of the KMPDU.

About Dr. Mercy Nabwire

Responsible, Honest Steward for All

She holds a Masters in Science Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and a Bachelor of Pharmacy. She is an Alumni of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation, Purdue University College of Pharmacy& Butler University, Indiana as well as the Global Labour University (GLU).

In Addition, Dr. Mercy has been active in steering change through conducting research and publishing journals in various aspects of pharmacy labor including: “Assessing Reverse Culture Shock Following an International Pharmacy Practice Experience,’’ “Implementation of a pharmacist managed anticoagulation clinic in Eldoret, Kenya”,” Clinical impact and economic burden of Chemotherapy-Related Adverse Events in Breast Cancer Patients on Adjuvant Chemotherapy with Doxorubicin and Cyclophosphamide at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital Cancer Care Centre: A Cross-sectional study” among others. Additionally, she has orally presented several documents internationally including; Reskilling Emergency Obstetric Care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Home Glucose Monitoring and Diabetes Care in Kenya at Purdue University, Pilot of Single-Use Obstetrical Emergency Medical Kits to Reduce Maternal Mortality” Poster presentation at the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Congress 2012, Rome among others.