The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) are blaming Transition Authority for their woes and has threatened to call a nationwide strike if the government does not address devolution issues affecting the health sector. The union Secretary general Seth Panyako says that county governments have ignored the nurses as well as national government. “Nurses are not employees of the county governments because they are not responsible for our salaries. We are told that we are under devolved government, yet there is no Act of Parliament devolving health. Functions cannot be devolved through a legal notice,” Panyako said. TA Chairman Kinuthia Wamwangi who was also present during the remarks, addressed the nurses’ union and maintained that the health sector had improved tremendously after devolution despite various human resource challenges. He said that the Transition Authority had inspected most hospitals in the country and established that there was substantial improvement in infrastructure and service delivery. He said that health workers had faced political interference from MCAs and called on the national government to address the challenge. Nakuru health facilities have been accusing MCAs for posting photos of patient being attended to online in the name of exercising their roles. The nurses said they would continue resisting the move to devolve health services until the government provides clear guidelines.

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