Speechless!!!!...Money which was to be used to pay nurses was channelled to other works.

The Senate Majority Leader said Tharaka-Nithi allocations must have been channeled to other work and asked the governor to ensure that the health workers were paid immediately.

As the patients continue to suffer in the villages, the few who are still in the wards in critical condition in Chuka General Hospital are urging the county government to reduce the Sh15, 000 charges for the ambulance for them to be transferred to Embu General Hospital. Related story nurses strike over unpaid salary enters day 5

A patient, Mr John Kimathi, said at Chuka General Hospital that other patients have been transferred and he has been left there because he does not have the money charged for ambulance.

“Will I die here because my people cannot afford Sh15,000 for the ambulance? I am asking them to take me home because even in Embu Hospital I will not be able to pay,” said Mr Kimathi.

The striking nurses maintained that they would not relent until they receive their May pay.

Speaking to media in Chuka Town on Friday, the nurses’ union branch secretary Kenneth Micheni said that the workers would only go back to work when the last person gets his pay.

“We will not get back to work until the last person gets the money because last time they paid few of us and after getting back to duty they did not pay others,” said Mr Micheni.

In Marimanti Town in Tharaka South District ‘Mbunge ya Mwananchi’ lobby asked governor Samuel Ragwa to sack Health executive Magdalene Njeru for saying that she had no apologies for the salary delay.