Clinical officers set to join countrywide strikes at midnight

A file photo of registered diploma clinical officers demonstrating in Uhuru Park over salaries. /MONICAH MWANGI
A file photo of registered diploma clinical officers demonstrating in Uhuru Park over salaries. /MONICAH MWANGI

Clinical officers are set to join other health workers in countrywide strikes at midnight despite calls from the Health ministry to allow room for talks.

This comes after negotiations between union officials, the Council of Governors and the Transition Authority failed.

Union of Kenya Clinical Officers chair George Gibore said they did not reach any consensus during the Monday meeting.

He said they raised concern over the Transition Authority and Governors' council management of health services since devolution.

"The process of with the constitution because no health law has been established to oversee the process," Gibore said on Wednesday.

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Clinical officers have also raised concern over ethnic considerations during deployment.

"We have previously seen health workers being denied transfers or even a chance to work in a different county and asked to seek redeployment to their counties," officials said.

The allegations have arisen after of missing their November salary after striking health workers paralysed operations in the county last week.

But Health CS Cleopa Mailu has asked the clinicians to give time for a roundtable dialogue to resolve grievances.

At the same time, President Uhuru Kenyatta has asked health workers to that has now entered the third day.

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