Lecturers strike kicks off, hits hospitals

Some of the striking Kirinyaga University Lecturers outside the institution gate after being ejected by the university administration. [Photo by Munene Kamau/Standard]

A nationwide lecturers’ strike kicked off yesterday, crippling learning in public universities and paralysing operations in referral hospitals across the country.

The striking lecturers downed their tools to demand better pay and remuneration and were joined by doctors supervising medical students in referral hospitals.