About 150 Nakuru nurses want assurance from the county government that they will be absorbed as full-time employees.
The nurses were hired three years ago under President Mwai Kibaki coalition government's Economic Stimulus Package.
About 40 of them spent the Wednesday seeking audience with Governor Kinuthia Mbugua and the Nakuru County assembly. This was after they unsuccessfully sought to see the health chief officer, Dr Samuel Mwaura, who was reportedly in the field most of the day.
Their representatives from the Kenya Nurses Union, who did not want to be named, said they have forwarded letters to both arms of the county government. They said recently, the national government issued a circular directing all county governments to absorb such nurses into their payrolls.
The nurses argued that while many county governments had complied, the Nakuru County government has not displayed any such assurance regarding their jobs.
Efforts to obtain a comment from Mwaura were fruitless as his phone went unanswered.