Nairobi Health Workers ask Uhuru to intervene saying NMS has failed to deal with their woes, issue two week strike notice

Nairobi Health Workers Caucus under the Kenya Health Professionals Society is now appealing to President Uhuru Kenyatta to intervene and ensure that their woes with their employer are resolved.

Led by Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) Nairobi Branch Secretary Tom Nyakaba, Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) Nairobi Branch Secretary Boaz Onchari and Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers (KNUMLO) Nairobi Branch Secretary Dennis Oduor, the health professionals say that their employer the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has ignored their pleas and now want President Uhuru to personally intervene and have their issues resolved owing to the fact that NMS is under his office.

The professionals say that despite having tried to engage in good faith with NMS, none of their issues has been handled conclusively and they have now issued a two week notice to NMS to have their issues resolved failure to which they will ask all their members in the city to down their tools.

‘We have given our employer two years to look into our issues but they have not heed to our pleas. We issued a one week strike notice to enable them call us for negotiations but nobody has engaged us. We have given another two week notice for them to address the issues we have raised failure to which all our members to down their tools,’ Mr Nyakaba told the media on Teusday.

Among the issues they want addressed within the next fourteen days include their members to be promoted to their rightful job groups, all their members on probation and contractual terms be confirmed to permanent and pensinable, and all members due for redesignation be redesignated with immedate effect and arbitrary transfers and removal of their members from the payroll stopped.

They also demand that they want to leave the NMS and get back to their previous emplyers saying that the entity has mismanaged health care workers in the county and their welfare.

‘We also want NMS to commit to be paying our members their salaries by 30th of every month. Our members are experiencing salary delays that are hurting their livelihoods.’ Said Mr Onchari.

They also want the head of state to tell them what next after the lapse of NMS’s tenure owing to the fact that they were seconded from various stations to the entity and want to know what will happen to them after NMS exits the stage.