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Oversight of the law to blame for nurses strike

Nurses demonstrate over pay during a past strike in Nairobi. [File/Standard]

An oversight by the Council of Governors (CoG) while signing a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the nurses’ union has returned to haunt counties following the caregivers’ strike that has left patients hapless.

Failure by the council to take into consideration the role played by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) is now standing in the way of a deal with striking health workers in about 20 counties.

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