The crisis at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) worsened on Tuesday after nurses downed their tools.
The nurses have raised oncers over mistreatment following the brain surgery mix-up.
The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) Secretary General Seth Panyako said that all the nurses at the hospital would not resume duty until all their grievances are met.
“As from today all the nurses at the Kenyatta National Hospital will not work. They are being mistreated after the mix-up and they will not take it any longer. We are telling them not to go back until this issue is resolved,” he is quoted by Capital fm.
This comes even as consultant doctors joined the over 700 registrar doctors who on Monday boycotted work after their colleague was suspended due to a brain surgery mix-up.
“These residents offer 85 per cent of work that is done at KNH. Some of them are self sponsored, they are not paid a single cent. A few of them are government sponsored. Importantly for Kenyatta, the hospital cannot control them because they are not their employees,” one of them stated.
They said that they will not go back to work until the Collective Bargaining Agreement signed with the government was adhered to.“Now that they have withdrawn their services and we are running with a skeletal staff of only 15 percent, we will be forced withdraw our services because we cannot handle the emergencies that come to Kenyatta and that is very important,” they said.