Nurses ordered to report back to work immediately as strike called off

By Ian Omondi,

The nurses' strike has now been called off after 79 days following a court order issued by the Labour Court on Monday. Kenya National Union of Nurs...

Justice Maureen Onyango , KNUN , Nurses strike , Seth Panyako

Kisumu County gov’t stops salaries of 428 striking nurses

By Elphas Lagat,

The crisis surrounding the healthcare sector in Kenya continues to deepen as more health care workers threaten to join striking colleagues to protest ...

Governor Anyang Nyong'o , Healthcare workers , Kisumu County , Nurses

Nurses vow to continue with strike, decry biased treatment compared to doctors

By Raquel Muigai,

The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) is demanding that the government recommits to talks to end their ongoing strike that has now lasted 20 days....

KMPDU , KNUN , Nurses strike , Seth Panyako

KNH workers suspend strike, to battle grievances out in court

By Tonny Ndungu,

The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) Secretary-General, Seth Panyako has urged workers from KNH who were on a go-slow to return to work. Speak...

KNH

One patient dies as KNH workers down tools, demand action on 2012’s salary review

By Erick Owenga,

Health Services at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) have been paralyzed, leaving one patient dead and several others seeking alternatives medical ...

KNH

KNH workers stage protest, slam SRC over failed salary review

By Erick Owenga,

Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) workers on Friday morning staged a peaceful protest accusing the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) of failin...

KNH , SRC , strike

KNH health workers give 7-day strike notice over failed salary review

By Nimrod Taabu,

Healthcare workers at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) have threatened to go on strike from Monday next week, accusing the facility of failing to ...

Dr.Evanson kamuri , Healthcare workers , KNH , SRC , Treasury

KNUN Secretary General Seth Panyako asks CS Kagwe to resign

By Zipporah Kariuki,

The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) Secretary-General, Seth Panyako has asked Health CS Mutahi Kagwe to resign. Speaking in Kakamega on Sunda...

KNUN Sec Gen Seth Panyakoo

Health workers strike in Kisumu enters day 2

By Laura Otieno,

Health services in Kisumu were disrupted for the second day after health workers continued with their salary parade, demanding arrears backdating to a...

Health workers in Kisumu down tools over unpaid salaries

By Allan Obiero,

Healthcare workers in Kisumu County save for doctors have made good their threats and kept off their places of work over salary arrears and promotions...

kisumu health workers strike

Baringo teens trading sex for money to buy sanitary towels

By Citizen Reporter,

Poverty and lack of parental responsibility have been cited as the major reasons for a rise in teenage pregnancies especially during this COVID-19 per...

Baringo County , COVID-19 , teenage pregnancy

Pumwani Maternity Hospital closed to new patients as fumigation begins

By Makori Ongechi,

The facility that on any normal day would serve hundreds of women remained closed as the 41 nurses who tested positive for COVID-19 spent their time i...

Boaz Onchari , COVID-19 , KNUN , Pumwani Maternity Hospital

Health workers suspend strike for 21 days because Kenya has ‘too many problems’

By Tabitha Rotich,

Kenya’s healthcare workers who were set to down their tools on Monday upon the expiration of their strike notice have now suspended the planned go-s...

COVID-19 , Healthcare workers , KNUN , PPE , Seth Panyako

Nurses to down tools on May 18 if risk allowance not harmonised – Panyako

By Vincent Afande,

Nurses have issued a two-week strike notice saying they will down their tools on May 18 if risk allowance is not harmonised. The Kenya National Uni...

Nurses , panyako , PPE

Woman jailed for recording her boss’s alleged sexual harassment granted amnesty

By CNN,

Indonesian lawmakers have unanimously approved amnesty for a woman who was sentenced to six months in prison for recording her boss's alleged sexual h...

Amnesty , Indonesia , sexual harassment

Applause as Indonesia pardons woman jailed after reporting harassment

By Reuters,

Indonesia parliament approved on Thursday an amnesty for a woman who was jailed after recording lewd phone calls from her boss in a case that has caus...

#MeToo movement , Baiq Nuril Maknun , Indonesia , National Commission on Violence Against Women

Indonesian woman jailed for reporting harassment to seek amnesty

By Reuters,

An Indonesian woman sentenced to prison for reporting her employer for sexual harassment said on Monday she will ask President Joko Widodo for an amne...

Indonesia , President Joko Widodo

Waiguru threatens to sack all striking health workers as strike enters day 9

By Johnson Muriithi,

Kirinyaga Governor Ann Waiguru has issued a one day ultimatum to the over 1000 striking health workers or face the sack. Speaking on Wednesday at T...

Governor Anne Waiguru , kirinyaga health worker's strike

All health workers withdrawn from Kirinyaga County-KMPDU orders

By Johnson Muriithi,

The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has directed all health workers under the Ministry of Health to go home. S...

KNUN issues another nurses strike notice

By Citizen Reporter,

The Kenya National Union Nurses (KNUN) on Friday issued a 60-day strike notice. While issuing the notice, KNUN Secretary General Seth Panyako said ...

KNUN , Nurses strike , Seth Panyako