Lab staff issue notice as doctors' strike bites

Medical graduates protest outside the Nakuru County Referral Hospital-Annex, and later held a peaceful demonstration in the streets of Nakuru City, over a raft of issues including delay in interneship placement. [Hilda Otieno, Standard]

The turbulence in the health sector is set to be aggravated by the medical technologists, who have issued a seven-day strike notice.

In the notice issued on Tuesday, the Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers (KNUMLO) say both the National and County governments have failed to establish a Recognition Agreement to ensure the inclusion of all Universal Health Coverage (UHC) personnel.