More than 100 patients were reported to have escaped yesterday from the Mathari Mental Hospital after doctors and nurses joined in the ongoing nationwide health workers’ strike. More than 4,000 doctors in public health facilities went on strike yesterday, demanding salary increments of up to 300 per cent. They want the government to effect the collective bargaining agreement they signed with the Health ministry in June 2013. They later marched from the Nairobi Public Service Club and demonstrated outside the Health ministry and later at the Treasury. The Health ministry officials were also expected to meet the KMPDU officials yesterday to try and end the strike.

Source: The Star December 05, 2016 23:52 UTC