The rural counties are affected by national health worker strike that is being felt first in maternity wards and dispensaries.
The Health Union Caucus downed tools over the same grievances: unpaid salaries, unremitted deductions, and the failure to convert UHC staff to permanent jobs.
They also want the 2024-2025 CBA implemented and an end to casual contracts that leave workers without security,but while county referral hospitals in cities kept skeleton staff on day one, smaller facilities shut early.
For mothers in labor, children with malaria, and elderly patients on chronic drugs, that means boda rides to towns they can’t afford, or no care at all.
Patients report longer queues where staff remain, and turned-away cases elsewhere, union officials say they won’t return until agreements are signed, until then, kenyans are paying the price.
