KNH nurses join nationwide strike as health crisis deepens

The nationwide health workers’ strike has entered its second week, with the country’s top referral hospital now joining the industrial action. Nurses at Kenyatta National Hospital resumed their strike last night, joining a wider nationwide walkout by the Kenya National Union of Nurses and Midwives over the government's failure to implement the 2025–2029 Collective Bargaining Agreement. As Mary Muoki reports, the strike has also crippled maternity services at Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital, where expectant mothers and other patients are being turned away and forced to seek costly alternatives at private health facilities.