Bungoma County health workers have threatened to down their tools should the Wycliffe Wangamati-led government fail to address their concerns.
They have called out the county government for alleged negligence saying that it has failed to keep the promises that they made to them during the past industrial action.
The county government had promised to address the issues that the nurses were facing but since then nothing has happened.
Speaking to the press in Bungoma town on Tuesday, the secretary general of Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) Bungoma branch George Barasa said that the county government during the past industrial action promised to look into the issues that the nurses were facing including the payment of enhanced risk allowance for all the nurses in the county, promoting the redesignation of nurses and confirmation of those who have been employed on permanent terms of service but it is yet to be done.
“As the hospitals across the county continue to suffer with a shortage of nurses, the county government is just quiet yet they even conducted an interview in November last year and the county public service board is yet to produce the results of that particular exercise.
“There are even some of our staffs who have exited service and there is no replacement hence making the services in health facilities very bad,” he said
Barasa went ahead to say that the county government has been having meetings with them but nothing is being generated from those meetings since their issues have never been addressed.
“We are asking them as the union in this county, we want them to implement this issues that we have agreed with them fully, and we are saying the word is fully because the count time for 14 days that we are issuing this strike starts today, once this notice elapses, members will pull out of the service and we won’t be having services in public facilities,” he said
