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County starts paying nurses' allowances to avert strike

Clinical officers and other health worker cadres demonstrate outside Embu Govenror Martin Wambora’s office to demand for risk allowance and health service allowance after they boycott work yesterday paralysing operations at public hospitals yesterday (February 22, 2017). They complained that they were left out when the government gave the two allowances to doctors and nurses. (PHOTO: JOSEPH MUCHIRI/STANDARD)

The Kilifi County government has begun paying allowances to striking nurses.

This comes after a one-month delay that led to a go-slow in public hospitals on Monday.

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