Life Care Hospital workers threaten to strike over alleged racism.[File, Standard]
Workers of an Eldoret-based hospital are threatening to down their tools over what they described as a toxic working environment.
Employees at the Life Care Hospital, including medical doctors, nurses and support personnel, are alleging that racism was rife at the facility.
According to the workers, who protested within the hospital precincts on Monday, foreign staffers, a majority of them of Indian descent, were earning higher salaries. These claims were neither denied nor admitted by the facility management.
The hospital, through its Human Resource officer Joshua Rop, said the allegations had not been formally submitted to the facility’s top management.
