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Meru health workers to strike

From left, Kenya Union of Nurses (Meru branch) leaders, Samuel Muchere, Bakari Mugambi and Nesbitt Mugendi, when they announced they will go on strike unless a task force to look into their grievances is constituted. [Martin Mwenda/Standard]

Members of the Kenya National Union of Nurses in Meru down tools next week over various grievances.

Branch Chairman Bakari Mugambi (pictured) and Secretary Nesbitt Mugendi, said lack of promotions, allowances and an acute shortage of nurses and other cadres, were the reason they planned to go on strike.

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