Health unions are up in arms against the decision by the government to extend the contracts of UHC staff by another three years.
This comes after reports that the Council of Governors chairperson Anne Waiguru in a communication to the more than 8,550 staff said their employment will be extended by three years.
This was contrary to the demand from unions that they are given permanent and pensionable terms.
The Ministry of Health had earlier said the staff will be absorbed under permanent and pensionable terms.
The unions now term the move as discriminatory and demand that the contractual terms of employment be stopped.
"Health care workers in this country are not children of a lesser God. Subjecting them to contracts will be killing their growth," Kenya Union of Clinical Officers chairman Peterson Wachira said.
Also present include the Kenya National Union of Nurses and the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentist's Union among others.
"You can't have one nurse earning Sh50,000 and another earning Sh20,000 yet they are working under the same environment seeing the same patients," KMPDU deputy secretary general Dennis Miskella said.
