By COLLINS OMULOMore by this AuthorMedical laboratory officers has given the government twenty days to address their grievances or they also down their tools. The officers also highlighted the lack of payment of bio-risk allowance despite dealing with infectious, toxic and carcinogenic agents and reagents. The rest of our fellow cadres in the Ministry of Health are paid and why not medical laboratory officials?” he posed. He also complained of the officers being neglected during negotiations on health service delivery despite the union being made up of over 25, 000 officers besides poor representation of the officers in various health facilities where close to all dispensaries and health centres have no medical laboratory officers. “There is biting shortage because of unemployment where for every 30 nurses employed only one medical laboratory officer is considered for employment,” he said.

Source: Daily Nation February 13, 2019 17:37 UTC