Tommorowlad

[The Standard Digital @StandardKenya]

The Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) has threatened to issue a strike notice at Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital over the continued employment of nearly 100 nurses on renewable three-month contracts, escalating a long-running labour dispute at Kenya's largest specialised mental health referral hospital.
https://t.co/tSTpKO2GTB

[Tommorowlad @brianoncha38378]

@scherargei Hon Duale .ps Oluga

[Senator Kiprotich Arap Cherargei @scherargei]

Yesterday i sought a statement on the status of nurses in Mathari National Teaching & Referral hospital who have been contract for 5 years without transitioning to permanent and pensionable terms.

#mtetezi

Blessed afternoon.

[Mzalendo @MzalendoWatch]

Sen. @scherargei rises to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on a matter of national concern regarding the employment terms of long-serving contract nurses at Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital. #BungeLiveSEN

[Omwamba 🇰🇪 @omwambaKE]

"Hello,

We are reaching out to you with hope because we feel like our voices have gone unheard.

We are a group of contract nurses working at Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital. Since 2019, many of us have remained on contract terms, earning only KSh 30,000 per month despite dedicating ourselves to caring for some of Kenya's most vulnerable patients. For years, we have continued serving with commitment, yet we have not been transitioned to permanent and pensionable employment.

The financial strain, uncertainty, and lack of job security have taken a serious toll on our mental health and the well-being of our families. It is heartbreaking that those entrusted with caring for the mental health of others are themselves struggling in silence.

We are not asking for special treatment—only for fairness, dignity, and the implementation of just employment practices. We kindly ask if you could help amplify our story by speaking about it publicly or helping us reach the relevant authorities. Your voice could make a real difference."

[Turner2😅 @Harrkejdj]

Nurses at Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital are extremely suffering.

[Tommorowlad @brianoncha38378]

@chiefkimenyi @CsDuale,Ps Oluga Your nurses Deserve better

[Ruby @chiefkimenyi]

The state of health care workers in Kenya is bad.Nurses on,contract in Mathare national hospital,Nairobi are going through a lot, some of them have been on 3 months contract since 2021 till to date,same working hours with those on PNP, justice for 70 nurses.

[Nyakundi Report @NyakundiReport]

Insiders Expose Labour Injustice at Mathari National Mental Health Referral Hospital — https://t.co/jyBInZKItc

[Tommorowlad @brianoncha38378]

@ouma_neko They deserve dignity not to awaken the looming crisis of their own Mental Health

[𝙋𝘼𝙐𝙇. 𝐎. 𝐍𝐄𝐊𝐎 @ouma_neko]

There is something deeply heartbreaking about how Kenya treats the very people who care for our lives.

Every day, contract nurses at Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital walk into a high-risk mental health facility knowing they may be assaulted by patients, exposed to trauma, and forced to carry emotional burdens that many of us will never understand. They do it because they chose to serve.

Yet after more than five years of continuous service since June 2021, they are still trapped in endless three-month contracts, living from renewal to renewal, never knowing whether they will still have a job tomorrow.

They perform the same duties as Permanent and Pensionable nurses.

They wear the same uniform.

They work the same shifts.

They care for the same patients. But when it comes to pay, allowances, job security, and dignity, they are treated as though their sacrifice is worth less.

How do we ask nurses to dedicate their lives to healing others while their own families live in uncertainty?

How do we expect them to give hope to patients when their own future is left hanging every three months?

This is not just an employment dispute. It is a moral failure.

The @MOH_Kenya cannot continue looking away while these nurses carry Kenya's mental healthcare system on their shoulders without the protection, recognition, and fairness they have earned.

Equal work deserves equal pay. Years of faithful service deserve permanent employment. Commitment deserves dignity.

I call upon the Ministry of Health, the Public Service Commission, and the leadership of Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital to act without further delay.

Absorb these nurses into Permanent and Pensionable terms, pay the allowances they are entitled to, recognize their years of service, and guarantee that none of them will face victimization for peacefully demanding justice.

A nation that abandons its nurses is a nation that abandons its own humanity.

These nurses have stood by Kenya. It is time for Kenya to stand by them.

[Tommorowlad @brianoncha38378]

@ouma_neko With the looming crisis in the country in the State of mental health this shouldn’t be happening to this dedicated nurses it only makes it worse to thier own mental health status yet they are the ones who are the primary care gives ,they deseve better

[Tommorowlad @brianoncha38378]

@omwambaKE Some mistakes are human error but this aint one them,Those nurses deserve dignity