Kakamega County is seeking to hire 102 health workers in a recruitment drive aimed at boosting numbers on the Covid-19 frontline. This is part of the at least 5,000 health workers who are set to be employed countrywide to help in the fight against the Coronavirus.
Speaking during an interview with West FM, Kakamega Governor and Council of Governors chairman Wycliffe Oparanya said as the CoG, they wrote a letter to the Public Service Commission and it was agreed that Counties can oversee their own recruitments.
He said interviews are set to last this week and next week and by 2nd May the healthworkers should start working. On the issue of their contracts, he said they shall be given 3 year contracts and their salaries will come from the national government as conditional grants to their respective Counties. Health workers have played an important role in the fight against the Covid-19 globally.