- The nationwide doctors' strike entered day 13 on Tuesday as the doctors refused to return to work until their concerns are addressed.
- Clinical officers on Monday also issued a seven-day strike notice, outlining their grievances and threatening to down their tools.
Doctors in Nakuru took to the streets on Tuesday to protest in solidarity with their counterparts in other counties. https://rb.gy/888uud
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Doctors in Nakuru took to the streets on Tuesday to protest in solidarity with their counterparts in other counties.
Wearing their coats and surgical caps, the doctors marched along the streets, singing 'Uninyunyizie maji' which caused traffic snarls-ups.
They are protesting among other things the posting of medical interns, fair pay for interns and medical doctors and comprehensive medical cover all of which are outlined in a collective Bargaining Agreement made in 2017.
The nationwide doctors' strike entered day 13 on Tuesday as the doctors refused to return to work until their concerns are addressed.
On Friday, doctors in Nairobi protested the posting of medical interns as they demanded that Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha heed their demands.
They cited the 2017 CBA while blaming the CS for going against the agreements made.
"Seven years later, the signed CBA is being disowned. The same CBA is a court order. The government has not yet implemented the basic salary in the CBA," Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union Secretary General Davji Atellah claimed outlining the union's demands.
"The comprehensive medical cover has been disowned, medical interns have not been posted, postgraduate training has also been disowned and doctors are not being employed."
Atellah claimed the union has in the past held meetings with the government but the commitments arrived at to resolve the stalemate had never been implemented.
He said that the doctors will stay on strike for as long as it takes.
Clinical officers on Monday also issued a seven-day strike notice, outlining their grievances and threatening to down their tools if the government does not address them by Sunday midnight.
the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers chairperson Peterson Wachira said the court last directed the employers to resume negotiations with a view of concluding the same.
Wachira said despite the ministry coming to the negotiating table, no reasonable progress has been made.
"I want to tell Kenyans that your government has failed you because today as KUCO, the Ministry of Health and the Council of Governors have forced us to call a strike and to interrupt health services," Wachira said.