By LEONARD ONYANGOMore by this AuthorThe suffering of patients in public hospitals is unlikely to end soon after nurses and governors on Monday maintained their hardline positions over the signing of a draft collective bargaining agreement. Duncan Ochieng' crawls back to his bed at Kisumu County Hospital on June 8, 2017. PHOTO | WACHIRA MWANGI | NATION MEDIA GROUPThe allowances include Sh15,400 health risk allowance, Sh5,000 extraneous allowance, and Sh5,000 responsibility allowance. In Wajir, the county nurses union branch secretary, Mr Siyad Abdi, said the government should stop intimidating his peers whenever they raise welfare questions. At Nakuru Level Five Hospital, a few patients sat in the outpatient section, which is usually busy.

Source: Daily Nation June 12, 2017 20:26 UTC