Health workers make good on strike threat

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Public health workers countrywide have today made good their threat to down tools paralyzing operations at almost all government hospitals in the country. In Nairobi, after converging at Uhuru Park in the morning as a show of solidarity, the health workers then proceeded to the Kenyatta National Hospital to flush out any of their colleagues they say were betraying their course by continuing with work despite calls to strike. The Union of Kenya Civil Servants has demanded that the Government pays health workers all extraneous allowances, improves working conditions and employs more workers before its members could go back to work. The union also wants all health workers on contract absorbed into permanent employment. Patients across the country are now bearing the brunt of a strike that experts warn could have serious implications if nothing is done about it.

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