State agency declares nurses’ strike a human rights crisis as death toll rises It says the disruption threatens the rights of patients to life, the highest attainable standard of health. Health Just now
The Commission also called on the Council of Governors and County Governments to honour the constitutional right to collective bargaining by fulfilling their obligations under the 2017 CBA and other applicable agreements, to urgently restore essential health services, activate contingency staffing and referral mechanisms, and ensure alternative arrangements do not impose prohibitive costs on patients who cannot afford private healthcare.
It urged the Ministry of Health, working with county governments, to immediately coordinate a national emergency response to guarantee continuity of essential and emergency services, including maternity, neonatal, ICU, dialysis, oncology, trauma, ambulance and referral care, and to publish an accurate assessment of affected services.
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has declared the nationwide nurses' strike a "national public health and human rights crisis", saying that it is "deeply concerned" that the dispute has escalated "from a labour dispute into a national public health and human rights crisis", requiring urgent intervention at the highest levels of the national and county governments.
This is a summary of the original articles listed below. Always read the source articles for the full context. GhanaSummary does not create or modify the news — we summarise and link to original publishers.
