{"id":111366,"date":"2025-03-04T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/uhc-medics-protest-in-nairobi-demanding-equal-pay-permanent-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:04:08","slug":"uhc-medics-protest-in-nairobi-demanding-equal-pay-permanent-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uhc-medics-protest-in-nairobi-demanding-equal-pay-permanent-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"UHC medics protest in Nairobi demanding equal pay, permanent jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 4 \u2013 Medics under the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) on Tuesday held demonstrations in Nairobi demanding equal pay, permanent jobs and pensionable terms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few who spoke to Capital FM news stated that they have been working on contract basis for over five years.<\/p>\n<p>They demanded equality in pay, pointing out that they have been doing the same work load as their colleagues who are permanently employed.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the medics demanded the remittance of their National Social Security Fund (NSSF) deductions.<\/p>\n<p>They indicated that they have presented petitions before at the Ministry of Health and Parliament and they have been ignored.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 4 \u2013 Medics under the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) on Tuesday held demonstrations in Nairobi demanding equal pay, permanent jobs and pensionable terms. A few who spoke to Capital FM news stated that they have been working on contract basis for over five years. They demanded equality in pay, pointing out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}