The county governments are unable to handle health functions, the Public Service Commission (PSC) has said.
The commission now wants all the health services reverted back to the national government. In its view to the Building Bridges Initiatives (BBI) taskforce.
The commission wants to be given the mandate of hiring medics to streamline their functions. The views come at a time when nurses have been threatening to go on strike after the county governments delayed to pay them.
PSC has insisted that county governments have proven beyond doubt that they cannot control the medics.
Through, PSC Legal Secretary Jacqueline Manani, the commission said that the move will be a reprieve to the medical doctors in different parts of the nation.
He asked President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM Leader Raila Amolo Odinga to consider their proposal as they root for the BBI report implementation.
“The Commission proposes an amendment of the Fourth Schedule Part 2(2) which lists health services as a function of the county government to provide that health services should revert to the national government and human resource in the health sector should be managed centrally by the Public Service Commission,” he explained, as quoted by Capital FM.
Doctors and nurses have been lamenting over different issues since their services were devolved.