National Treasury has said no additional money will be released to counties to pay nurses since health is a devolved function. He said the National Government does not have any additional resources to cater for the nurses’ allowances. The Council of Governors (CoG), through a letter to SRC dated December 18, 2018 noted that the counties had no money to pay nurses. Panyako questioned how CoG can claim counties have no money yet some counties have already agreed that the money is factored in their budgets. For the 24 counties which say they will pay, strike notices will be issued to individual counties that do not keep their promise.

Source: Standard Digital January 31, 2019 21:04 UTC