Sad! How Kenya’s nurses strike has cost athlete’s life

Kenya is mourning the death of a legendary athlete, Nyantika Mayioro. Maiyoro was diagnosed with tuberculosis but succumbed to comma on 24th February, 2019.

Nyantika had been admitted at the Kisii General Hospital but his family took him back home owing to the nurses’ strike. When his condition deteriorated, he was rushed to Christa Marianne Hospital, a private hospital run by the Catholic Diocese of Kisii, where he died.

The striking nurses wanted an increase in allowances that had not been implemented following the agreement in the most recent strike. According to a statement released by Seth Panyako, the General Secretary at the Union, nurses expected an increment of KShs. 3,000 by the ending on July last year followed by an annual increase of KShs. 3, 500 in the two subsequent years, as per the agreement.

According to this agreement, nurses were to receive a salary increment of KShs. 3,000 in 2018 and an additional KShs. 3,500 in 2019 and 2020. Similarly, KNUN officials and their members demanded KShs. 5,000 annual salary increment as uniform allowances, effective July 2018.

During the release of the notice, Panyako insisted that health practitioners have exercised enough patience waiting for the implementation of the agreement that had since been abandoned by the national and county governments. His public appeal insisted on the fact that a mutually signed return to work formula that saw nurses call off strike in 2017 had failed to implement.3

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