Crisis looms in public hospitals in Siaya County as doctors, clinicians and nurses strike over salary delays. By JUSTUS OCHIENG'More by this AuthorPatients in public hospitals in Siaya are scrambling for alternative sources of health service after medics went on strike Wednesday over delayed salaries. Mr Kanundu said the funds came in on Wednesday and that the health workers would be paid immediately. The health workers said they decided to down their tools after a meeting with county officials on Tuesday “failed to bear fruits”. HOPEAt the Siaya Referral Hospital, the main public health facility in the county, patients waited for hours hoping to be attended to.

Source: Daily Nation February 22, 2018 08:26 UTC