Similarly, the nurses are protecting delay or non-payment of salaries to all UHC nurses both contracted and interns.
“For instance, Vihiga county has not paid nurses for more than 14 months,” KNUN SG Seth Panyako said in the letter.
Other demands include payment of Sh30,000 risk allowance to all nurses, confirmation of contract nurses to permanent and pensionable terms, free comprehensive medical cover for nurses for all ailments including Covid-19, declaration of Covid-19 as a work occupational health hazard and completion of pending CBAs.
“In view of the above, we hereby issue a 14-day strike notice from the date of this letter, upon expiry of which the strike shall commence on December 7,2020,” Panyako said.
“By a copy of this letter, the branch secretaries are hereby requested to serve the relevant offices in the county government and further mobilise our members to participate in the said strike.”
Other demands are the employment of 7,000 nurses to help fight Covid-19, the inclusion of Health Service Commission as a constitutional body in the BBI and not as a proposed statutory body, provision of group life insurance cover to all nurses and provision of adequate and standard Personal Protective Equipment for all healthcare workers.
