By KENNEDY KIMANTHIMore by this AuthorGovernors have started the push to have doctors, nurses and other health workers in direct contact with coronavirus patients paid enhanced allowances for the risks they encounter. The Council of Governors has urged the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) to approve the request and the newly-formed National Co-ordination Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic to set aside more resources for the allowances. Nurses are the most exposed workers in hospitals, being the first contacts with those infected with the deadly virus. AdvertisementThe council wants SRC chairperson Lyn Mengich to advise whether county governments should use existing allowances. And in a separate letter to Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i, who chairs the National Co-ordination Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, governors requested the committee to set aside resources to cater for the additional allowances.

Source: Daily Nation April 17, 2020 06:56 UTC