Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists Dentists Union is threatening to scale up the ongoing doctors' strike if the government will not meet their demands.
KPMDU officials, led by secretary general Dr Davji Atella, met with doctors in Eldoret and declared that there was no turning back.
“In fact, if they continue to play games and politics with this issue then we will scale up things and remain on strike as long as the government wants,” he said.
Atellah claimed some governors had stopped paying salaries to doctors to intimidate them.
Governors have said that the disputed 2017 collective bargaining agreement, which medics are demanding, should be reviewed.
However, Atella said the document was signed and should be implemented as its.
"To the governors who are playing public relations with healthcare and withdrawing our pay, we are telling them just keep the money. We will not be intimidated at all."
He said the doctors had issued 19 demands to the government before the strike, but not one of the issues had been addressed.
"In fact, they are now watering down the CBA we are fighting for," he said.
The union boss said it was up to the government to take care of suffering patients in hospitals.
Atella said the delayed CBA of 2017 must be implemented and talks for a new one to start before they resume work.
"We are in this strike as long as the government wants us to be in it," he said.
"We have met the doctors and lecturers who are members of KMPDU and they have declared they will remain on strike.
"We are in this strike as long as the government wants us to be in it."
