Isiolo nurses strike deal to end 2-month strike
Nurses in Isiolo County have signed a return-to-work formula to end a two-month strike that had paralysed healthcare services in all public health facilities, following weeks of lengthy deliberations between the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), the County Public Service Board, and the County Executive, arbitrated by the County Labour Officer Florence Karimi Mwenda.
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Addressing journalists on Monday, October 14, 2025, at the Isiolo County Public Service Board offices, where the Return to Work Formula was crafted and signed, the National Chairperson of the Kenya National Union of Nurses, Joseph Ngwasi.
The Isiolo Branch Secretary, Martin Muse, announced that the industrial action that began on August 8, 2025, has effectively come to an end and that all the nurses working across all the public health facilities in Isiolo county are required to report to their work stations by 8.00 am on Thursday, October 16, 2025.
They said that those who had travelled upcountry to far destinations will have 48 hours to make travel arrangements to their respective workstations by Thursday morning, October 16, 2025.
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Raised concerns
Muse noted that all the concerns that they had raised with the employer, such as hiring more nurses to reduce workload and improve efficiency and promotion of Nurses who have stagnated in the same job group for many years.
He further apologised to the people of Isiolo for the inconveniences caused during the strike period.
Isiolo County Secretary and head of public Service Dade Boru, who represented Governor Abdi Guyo and the Acting Chairperson of the Isiolo County Public Service Board Joseph Mwangi Komu, noted that no nurse will be victimised for their absence from their work stations during the strike period and called upon the health workers to dedicate themselves to delivering quality healthcare services to the people of Isiolo.
Dade and Komu further implored public servants through their unions to always give dialogue a chance to avoid industrial actions like the one that just ended, a situation that results in massive suffering of innocent members of the public.
They asked residents of Isiolo to seek health care services from the public facilities close to them as of Thursday morning, noting that all services will be back as usual, following the end of the two-month stalemate.
