Dialogue best remedy for Kisumu doctors’ strike

Empty hospital beds at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kisumu. Operations at the public hospitals in the county have been paralyzed by the medics’ strike. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Now in its second week, a strike by doctors and clinical officers in Kisumu County has brought medical services to its knees. 

This was made worse by nurses who started their strike on September 11, 2019 over demands for better pay and promotion. The nurses’ strike was called off on October 16, 2019, and now this.