Health care unions have accused some county governments of using intimidation, coercion and cunning tactics to force striking healthcare workers back to work. Speaking in Nairobi on Thursday, the Kenya National Union of Nurses and the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers termed it as luring healthcare workers into death traps in the pretext of returning on duty to serve Kenyans. The CoG chair Wycliffe Oparanya in a statement on Thursday urged the healthcare workers to understand the prevailing circumstances that are being faced globally, nationally and at the county level. “Most of the issues raised by the unions are specific to certain counties and therefore not all. We urge the health workers’ unions to resolve the issues with the concerned counties,” Oparanya said.

Source: The Star December 10, 2020 15:11 UTC