Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists' Union Secretary General Davji Atella has said the impending doctors' strike is aimed at benefiting Kenyans.
Speaking on Citizen TV on Tuesday, Atella said hospitals are lacking all facilities needed to provide quality healthcare.
"Kenyans have the right to access health care in any part of the country regardless of their financial status," he said.
Atella said the union has given both the national and county government enough grace period for engagement.
He said it has become difficult for its members to carry out their duties, saying they are facilitated by the system to fail.
"When we're having these discussions of the CBA 2017-2011, it's not for money," he said.
"We're demanding that these issues of accusations about the negligence of health care, that has been neglected by the government and by those investments that are needed are the issue we want to be sorted."
Atella said if the system had backed them, the six maternal deaths recorded in Kakamega in November, would have been preventable.
He listed other negligence cases including a mother who died in a matatu on her way to the hospital for ICU services.
"All these are frustrations that doctors are having in the facilities. We must have money in healthcare and that is why we have to increase money allocation to the counties," he said.
Atella said there was a need for a centralised approach to the management of human resources for health.
He also raised the issue of patients waiting for 24 hours to be attended to.
He said there were few in the facilities as graduating interns were not being employed.
