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Nurses are crucial to Kenya’s goal of quality, affordable healthcare
Nurses are well positioned to provide simultaneous health-promotion and disease-prevention advice and take on roles in coordinating and supporting teams of primary health care workers. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Kenya’s healthcare system may stumble yet again if nurses go ahead with their strike next month. Nurses have issued a 21-day strike notice stating the government’s failure to implement the agreement made in 2017.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has a dream that by the end of his second term in 2022, every Kenyan will have access to critical healthcare services without denting their pockets. However, this may be difficult to achieve if issues persist with the quality of healthcare and presence of adequate workforce.
