Nakuru Deputy Governor Joseph Ruto has said that the county government is working round the clock to make sure that the striking nurses resume work.
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Ruto said that the county government is holding talks with nurses’ representatives to arrive at an agreement that will end the ongoing strike that entered its fourth day on Thursday.
The Deputy Governor refuted claims in that the talks between the county government and the nurse’s representatives had failed.
“We are seriously engaged with their representatives so that the strike can end and services resume in our public hospitals and health centres,” he said.
Ruto further dismissed reports in that six people had died as result of the ongoing strike at the Nakuru Provincial General Hospital.
The deputy governor said that only two patients have died since the strike started.
“We want to make it clear that no one has died in Nakuru as a result of the ongoing nurses and doctors’ strike,” he said.
The strike started on Monday in Nakuru County with the medics accusing the county government of failing to pay their allowances and salaries on time.
The medics claim that the county has not paid them allowances for several months amounting to million of shillings.
Meanwhile, the Council of Governors chairman Peter Munya claims that some people in the national government are behind the ongoing strikes in some counties.
In a statement to the media on Wednesday, Munya alleged that some people could be sponsoring the nurses and doctors to strike so that counties can be blamed for failing to handle healthcare.