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MPs want governors to be stripped of health duties

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Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna speaks during the joint sitting of the National Assembly and Health Committee. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Parliament is now considering reverting healthcare services to the national government following what they termed as contempt from the Council of Governors (CoG) in ending the health workers' strike.

This emerged on Friday after the CoG snubbed a joint sitting of the National Assembly and Health Committee.

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