Health Workers at Kenya’s Biggest Hospital Strike Over Pay

Doctors, nurses want new hospital structure and adjusted pay
Strike is latest hurdle to nation’s fight against coronavirus

Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.
Photographer: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images

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By David Herbling

September 28, 2020 at 12:25 PM UTC

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Doctors and nurses at Kenya’s biggest publicly-funded hospital started a strike on Monday to push for better remuneration, paralyzing services at a time the nation is battling Covid-19.

The workers want the government to implement a new organizational structure, including pay adjustments, agreed in 2012 when the Kenyatta National Hospital, or KNH, was upgraded to a top-tier parastatal, according to their union.