Kenya must invest more in nurses to achieve universal health care goal

A nurse attends to a patient at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital. PHOTO | JOHN NJOROGE | NMG

Kenya’s nurses are once again on the war path promising to go on strike to protest the government’s failure to honour a pay increase agreement that ended a five-month boycott last year.

It would be the second time in two years this is happening, with the possibility of creating another public health crisis because of the huge role that nurses play in the system.

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