Drama at Kenyatta Hospital As Nurses Protest Union Leader’s Arrest

There was drama at the Kenyatta National hospital after a section of nurses protested the arrest of Nurses union leader Seth Panyako

Panyako was been arrested for allegedly inciting Kenyatta National Hospital into going on strike.

Panyako was arrested alongside other nurses who were also in the protest.

The nurses at the referral hospital were protesting the said the go-slow followed the “management’s infringement of their right to join a union.”

The Kenya National Nurses Union secretary general was taken by police following a report by the KNH security chief.

Several protesting nurses were also arrested and held in custody at the KNH police post with some resisting police arrest.


Security boss at the National hospital, Mukhwana, called the police since according to him, Panyako had no authority to call the nurses to join a strike.

“He is an outsider, hence, cannot come here to cause disruption at the hospital when nurses are at work,” Mukhwana said.

The health workers further raised security concerns citing an assault on a nurse by a mother on October 14.

“Our colleague was hurt but the management has not taken any action or given any information regarding the patient who assaulted the nurse,” one of them said.

The woman who accused of assaulting the nurse said that she acted out of pain and anger.

Pamela Akinyi, 40, said she rushed to the hospital upon receiving a sad news that her son Elisha Juma, 17, passed on.

The single mother of two was informed of the death by her son Gideon Ogola, who was looking after Juma when she was away.

She said that on asking the nurse to explain why she couldn’t be briefed as the mother of the deceased, the latter walked away.

“My late son earlier told me the nurses were harassing him. He even wanted to be transferred to another hospital but the doctors refused.”

Pamela, who has dismissed claims she strangled the nurse, said they wanted to take the sick boy to Nairobi West Hospital.

She also denied allegations that she used a blunt object to hit the health worker.

Kenyatta National hospital nurses though want justice for their colleague. They have even bashed the hospital management for asking the assaulted nurse to cater for her treatment even after being attacked in the line of duty.

 

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