MTRH workers issue seven day strike ultimatum over welfare funding crisis

MTRH employees including doctors, nurses, lab technologists and others during a demonstration in Eldoret Uasin Gishu County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard].

Health workers at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) have issued a one-week strike ultimatum to the government, citing worsening working conditions, non-remittance of statutory deductions, and severe underfunding of the facility.

Addressing the media on Tuesday in Eldoret, union representatives drawn from various health sector bodies warned that services at the country's second-largest referral hospital would be paralysed if their grievances are not addressed within seven days.