Nairobi, March 29 -- Health workers in Meru County have threatened to go on strike from April 3 if their February salaries are not paid.
The nurses, medical laboratory officers, medical practitioners and dentists, pharmaceutical technologists and clinical officers' unions said they were not ready to risk their lives as the country battles coronavirus.
Through their union officials, the medics said they will down their tools on April 3.
Led by Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union upper Eastern Region Chairman Dennis Mugendi, the officials advised patients to stay at home as normal services would grind to a halt should they not be paid by April 3.
Addressing the press at Meru Show ground on Saturday, the medics said most of them ...