With the bitting nurses strike patients may be force to access private healthcare facilities or seek alternative treatment. So far 11 counties across the country are facing a paralysisi of services as nurses went on strike over unpaid service and uniform allowances.

The nurses union secretary general Seth Panyako confirmed the kick of industrial action while blaming the government for not honoring the return to work formula Drafted in 2017, which he says would rid the nation of nurses' strikes.  In the current strike, the nurses are demanding a nursing service allowance of ksh. 3000 and uniform allowance of 5000 shillings for each nurse. The nurses strike comes at a critical time when Kenya is on the Pilot stages of universal healthcare