Ruto orders governors to absorb 7,400 UHC workers
Ruto has directed county governors to absorb the 7,414 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) workers into permanent and pensionable (PnPs ) jobs.
President William Ruto has directed county governors to absorb the 7,414 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) workers into permanent and pensionable (PnPs ) jobs.
President Ruto made the directive on June 14 while attending a church service in Kajiado County at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
He revealed that the national government has set aside Ksh8.9 billion under the 2026-2027 budget for this purpose and that no single one of the UHC workers will be left behind under this new directive.
“I want to ask you, governors, we have set aside Ksh8.9 Billion under the 2026-2027 budget, so that the over 7,400 under the Universal Health Coverage (UCH) who are in your county hospitals, who have been working under a contractual basis, these workers, who largely include nurses, will move forward be under a permanent and pensionable employment plan,” stated President Ruto.
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This money is meant to cushion counties as they transition UHC workers, most of them nurses, forming the backbone of healthcare services in county hospitals, from contractual arrangements into permanent and pensionable terms of employment.
For months now, governors and UHC staff have been locked in a heated standoff over this very issue.
The Council of Governors (GoG) insist their counties simply do not have enough money to absorb these workers without help from the national government.
During the CoG meeting on August last year, on the transfer of the UHC staff, it was agreed that the ministry would first allocate adequate resources as per the approved SRC salary scale before transferring the payroll to the counties. Therefore, the decision to transfer the staff now is both premature and untimely.
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