In Kenya, nurses provide a bulk of direct patient care at all levels of health . These services include but not limited to preventive and curative. The nursing council of Kenya (NCK) is mandated to set standards for education and pra ctice of nurses (he althcare workforce report) . Kenya has 30, 243 nurses currently practising . This means t hat for every 10 000 people there are 8.3 nurses. This is way below the WHO recommended ratio. In Taita Taveta , only 5 nurses take care of 10 000 people. This not only leads to burnout but also the deterioration of services being offered. With the small salaries and the huge responsibili ties coupled with burnout being experienced by the nurses, it is now common to find many nurses leaving the country for other places with better enumeration. This further worsens a bad situation. If the county governments sack the nurses as they have continued to th reaten them, then the health sector ri sks getting in
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