Kisumu Health Workers want their three months' salary paid
By Dickson Odhiambo
August 21, 2020
Kisumu Health Workers want their three months' salary paid
Health workers in Kisumu County are in need of their three months’ salary from the County Government of Kisumu.
Through their representatives from various health workers
unions, the health workers said they have not been paid their three months’
salary while others demand for their six months' salary.
Addressing the press in Kisumu today, the Kenya National Union of Nurses Deputy Secretary General Maurice Opetu and the Kisumu Branch Secretary Kenya Union Clinical Officers Craus Okumu said they are on salary parade until they will be paid the salary arrears in full.
They claim that some of the health workers like the contracted ones have never been paid their salaries for six months.
Okumu says most of the health workers have not paid their monthly house rent for three months, adding that the situation is worse and should be addressed urgently by paying the salary arrears promptly.
“This is the reason as to why we have told our members to stay at home, sanitize and stay safe because they have never been paid,” Okumu says.
Opetu on his part says it is not their intention to be out on a disruption of the health service care in Kisumu but they have been pushed to the wall by not being paid their three months salaries.
“We can’t take care of our families as well as paying our bills. This is a very sad situation and we are not on strike but on a salary parade until we will be paid,” Opetu says.
Kisumu County Executive Committee member in charge of Health and
Sanitation Prof Boaz Nyunya did not reply to the message to comment on the
matter by the time of going to press.
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