A section of nurses attached to Kangundo Level Four Hospital are up in arms following eviction from their houses by Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) administration.
According to letter dated April 13, seen by Education Newspaper, the institution recommended the eviction on basis that there was an existing ‘bad blood’ between the nurses and the students citing security threats to the students arising as nurses entertained outsiders in the premises and those nurses with children have resorted to leave them (children) to loiter in KMTC classes.
“The institution has had steady growth in student numbers for the last three years and expected to expand with the needs of Universal health coverage agenda. In regard to this, it has become a security threat to the five Kangundo level four hospital nurses housed inside the school compound.
“Their co-existence with our students has brought hostility and bad blood between them and students which the KMTC administration has resolved through the hospital management, DCCs office and the Ministry of Housing for a permanent solution,” read the letter in part.
The nurses who addressed the media said that they were allocated the houses by the National Housing and do not understand why they are being kicked out. They called upon the County Government to intervene and ensure they get justice.
“I was allocated house number LG32A and because I came in August, they backdated and I was to pay arrears. My predicament began last week while I was on leave. The deputy principal incited the students to kick me out because I live with my grandchildren who go to school and I have also done some farming,” said Mary Mueni one of the nurses.
Kenya Union of Nurses Secretary General, Machakos branch Mike Saka, condemned the action stating that the nurses have a right to live in the houses and having being paying the Ksh.1,600 rent diligently.
Saka also noted that the houses have not yet been handed over to KMTC thus the institution has no power to evict anyone living in the houses.
Saka promised to petition the KMTC CEO following the issue.
KMTC Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Kelly Oluoch, upheld the decision to evict the five nurses noting that the management was well advised as the decision will worsen the relations between the student and the nurses.
By Agnes Orang’o
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