Expunged from payroll
“Things are thick for us. We were expunged from the payroll just like healthcare workers, so we never received our December salaries,” the officer said.
Chief Officer for Medical Services Isaac Omeri said the healthcare workers would only be reinstated to the payroll if they return to work.
But Omeri was reluctant to comment on the fate of officials from the health department whose pay was withheld.
In Kakamega, the process to replace striking nurses has started. The County Health Executive Collins Matemba told The Standard that doctors, clinicians and nurses would not be paid a cent because they participated in an illegal strike.
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Family members gather at Shadrack Bilinda s Matulo village home to plan burial arrangements for his wife and son who died on Tuesday at Lugulu Mission Hospital in Webuye. They add to the growing number of causalities of the ongoing nurses and clinical officers nationwide strike. [Willie Khaemba, Standard]
A woman and her son who could not get specialised treatment at a Bungoma health facility owing to a nationwide strike by medics have died.
The woman died at Lugulu Mission Hospital on Tuesday, hours before her son followed.
Shadrack Bilinda said his wife, Rose, and son, Martin, could not get specialised care at the Lugulu hospital. The two had been undergoing treatment at Webuye County Hospital until the strike started.