| Updated Fri, May 5th 2017 at 10:33 GMT +3National Treasury PHOTO:COURTESYCounties are yet to receive money from the National Treasury to pay health workers their negotiated allowances. The nurses and clinical officers were to be paid the allowances in March when the National Treasury assured counties of additional funds to make the payments. All counties paid apart from Nyamira that has never paid both the health worker allowance and emergency call allowance. The additional funding compromise Sh1, 613,100.00 conditional grant to cater for health workers in county governments and Sh86, 892,000 for those under the national government. However by yesterday, the counties said they were yet to receive the cash as health workers threatened to resume a strike they abandoned last December.

Source: Standard Digital May 05, 2017 07:30 UTC