Deputy President William Ruto has said the concerns being raised by the medical workers in the country should be urgently addressed over other issues. The protectives, he said, should be given to the medics for use during this period adding it was wrong to continue holding it as health workers in the country suffer. Ruto also asked counties to prioritize issues to do with the medics as allowances, protective, and salaries. Pouring cold water into the looming referendum, Ruto said the focus at the moment should be on how to deal effectively with the crisis in the health sector, "and the only way possible is to have the concerns by our medics addressed first." He further stated that the ministry of health has been directed to release the Personal Protective Equipment which he said were lying in stores as investigations into alleged procurement processes continue.

Source: The Star December 08, 2020 20:15 UTC