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Health crisis as thousands of nurses head for retirement

A health crisis is quickly unfolding as more than half of the nurses in the public sector head for retirement while most of the new entrants are applying to go overseas.

The National Nurses Association of Kenya (NNA-Kenya) is calling for the immediate recruitment of more health workers to save the sector from imminent collapse.

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