Health operations are set to be paralysed at the county as nurses organise a strike to protests against a proposed Bill currently at the Senate.
Mr Maurice Odhiambo, the Deputy Secretary General of the Kenya National Union of Nurses in Kisumu on Thursday told this writer on phone that the union had made appropriate arrangements for peaceful protests that left patients receiving medical attention as usual.
"We held peaceful protests against the health Bill that seeks to undermine health workers from 18 carders. If the Senate committee fails to consider our petitions, all health workers shall down their tools until our demands are met," he said.
He said delegations of nurses who were off duty were to take part in the one day peaceful course.
He added that the health workers have Kenyans' interests at heart and had to uphold normalcy despite having been sidelined by the government in the new system of health management.
The nurses have faulted the Bill for seeking to constitute an oversight amorphous umbrella body through Parliament disregarding other unions and regulatory bodies under which most health workers belong to.
He said the government had appointed clinical and medical officers un-competitively into facility management positions despite the fact that some nurses had equal measure of qualifications.
Seth Panyako, the Kenya National Union of Nurses Secretary General had announced the one day national protest over the health Bill before the senate on Tuesday.