{"id":13934,"date":"2020-09-05T19:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=13934"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:30:42","slug":"homa-bay-health-workers-resume-duty-after-agreeing-with-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/homa-bay-health-workers-resume-duty-after-agreeing-with-county","title":{"rendered":"Homa Bay health workers resume duty after agreeing with county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0James Omoro<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Health facilities across Homa Bay County to resume operations after health workers called off their one-month strike.<\/p>\n<p>All health workers who include doctors, pharmacists, nurses, clinical officers and laboratory technicians downed their tools on August 3 to demand their salary arrears and allowances for June and July. The strike paralysed services in all public health facilities in the county.<\/p>\n<p>The situation caused a setback in the fight against Covid-19 as all the treatment centres were closed due to lack of health personnel to man them.<\/p>\n<p>But on Wednesday evening, the health workers and the county government arrived at a consensus to end the strike.\u00a0In a negotiation led by Homa Bay County secretary Isaiah Ogwe, Finance CECM Nicholas Koriko and his health counterpart Richard Muga, the health workers agreed to resume duty.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement from the health workers\u2019 unions issued by \u00a0Nyanza region Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) chairman Kevin Osuri, the health workers said they had been paid the salaries and allowances they were demanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been paid all the dues we were demanding from the county government. We have agreed that salaries for the subsequent months will be paid by 8th of the succeeding month,\u201d Osuri said.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Osuri said all the health workers\u2019 unions had agreed that their members would return to work with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs unions, we are communicating with our members to resume work immediately,\u201d Osuri said.\u00a0Ogwe said they had made arrangements to ensure workers are paid salaries at the right time in the county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apologise for the salary delay which made the health workers down their tools. It was not our wish but because of the stalemate which has marred division of revenue bill in the Senate,\u201d Ogwe said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed concerns that they were in September yet the county had not received funds for the current financial year.\u00a0The medics\u2019 strike predisposed lives of many residents of the county to risks of death due to inability to afford healthcare in private health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany residents of this county could not afford healthcare in private health facilities due to limited income,\u201d said Michael Ogalo, resident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0James Omoro AfricaPress-Kenya: Health facilities across Homa Bay County to resume operations after health workers called off their one-month strike. All health workers who include doctors, pharmacists, nurses, clinical officers and laboratory technicians downed their tools on August 3 to demand their salary arrears and allowances for June and July. 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