{"id":4471,"date":"2025-08-21T15:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:43:19","slug":"breaking-machakos-nurses-end-two-week-strike-after-deal-as-governor-wavinya-acts-out-of-love-for-residents-she-refuses-to-see-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/breaking-machakos-nurses-end-two-week-strike-after-deal-as-governor-wavinya-acts-out-of-love-for-residents-she-refuses-to-see-suffer\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Machakos Nurses End Two-Week Strike After Deal, As Governor Wavinya Acts Out of Love for Residents She Refuses to See Suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Machakos County nurses have called off their two-week strike after sealing a return-to-work formula with county government officials this evening. The agreement followed an intense, last-minute negotiating session that resolved key sticking points and cleared the way for immediate restoration of services.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4472\" src=\"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0662-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0662-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0662-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0662-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0662.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Under the deal, all nurses are expected to report back to their respective facilities tomorrow, with normal operations slated to resume across public hospitals and clinics. County administrators say briefings will be conducted at unit level to align teams on the commitments made and the implementation timetable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4473\" src=\"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755788317842-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755788317842-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755788317842-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755788317842-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755788317842.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Residents have been urged to seek services as usual while the county lifts contingency measures put in place during the stoppage. Officials praised the breakthrough as a win for patients and frontline staff, and signaled plans to monitor compliance closely to ensure stability in the health sector going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machakos County nurses have called off their two-week strike after sealing a return-to-work formula with county government officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664.jpg",1578,1600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664-296x300.jpg",296,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664-768x779.jpg",640,649,true],"large":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664-1010x1024.jpg",640,649,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664-1515x1536.jpg",1515,1536,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664.jpg",1578,1600,false],"morenews-featured":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664-1024x1038.jpg",1024,1038,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250821-WA0664-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Kambaland Times","author_link":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/author\/kituitimes\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/category\/governance\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Governance<\/a>","tag_info":"Governance","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kambalandtimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}