Governor Lee Kinyajui in a past event. Photo/courtesy
More than 1200 striking nurses in Nakuru County risk losing their jobs if they fail to return to work by Friday this week.
This is according to a statement by Nakuru Governor Lee Kinyanjui during a press briefing earlier on Wednesday.
Governor Kinyanjui said that despite holding talks with representatives of the striking nurses, they had turned down heeds to call off the strike.
“Those who will not have returned to work will have their positions advertised next week,” he said.
The county boss said that his government will not sit back and allow patients lose lives at the expense of striking nurses.
He regretted that three months down the line, the situation in public hospitals in Nakuru has been wanting and therefore it was the high time that nurses heeded to calls by the Council of Governors to return to work.
It will be noted that under the leadership of former governor Kinuthia Mbugua, the county government of Nakuru employed more than 200 health workers to replace the then striking ones.
Governor Lee Kinynajui has since appointed a task force to look into ways of revamping the health sector.
The committee headed by former Egerton University vice chancellor Prof. James Tuitoek is supposed to visit all public health institutions in Nakuru county and has until the end of this month to compile its report and make the same public .
It has been mandated to look into human resource, procurement among other issues affecting the health sector in the county.