Nairobi Health Workers Go On Strike To Demand For Better Services

Nairobi Health workers under the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) commenced their strike following the expiry of their strike notice.

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 commenced the strike so as NMS can solve their issues resolved failure to which they will ask all their members in the city to down their tools.

Among the issues they wants addressed are not monetary and range from include their members to be promoted to their rightful job groups, all their members on probation and contractual terms be confirmed to permanent and pensionable, and all members due for redesignation be redesignated with immediate 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 employers saying that the entity has mismanaged health care workers in the county and their welfare.

‘We want to get back to our former employer, City Hall. NMS has failed us big time and do not even want to call us for talks despite issuing them with two notices. 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.’ The workers officials said.