Health services will be paralysed in the country after doctors joined nurses and clinical officers in a countrywide strike after a two-week extension of a notice to down tools lapsed last night.
On December 10 it appeared the crisis would be solved when several resolutions were hammered during a joint session of the health committees of the Senate and National Assembly – that could have seen demands by health workers in the country met – but yesterday it became clear that none of those demands by the doctors had been met
Cheregany MP Joshua Kuttuny told the doctors to mark committee's negotiations as part of the solution to their plight, and do away with the prevailing notice to strike since there was ‘light at the end of the tunnel.
Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists’ Union Secretary General Dr. Chibanzi Mwachonda could not however commit whether the doctors will scrap the strike notice. He only assured the stakeholders in the negotiations that the union will be available for further dialogue.
The union, however, cited unresolved issues despite engagements for close to eight months.
“The KMPDU wishes to inform members of the Kenyan public that doctors will withdraw their labour in accordance with article 41 of Kenyan Constitution due to unresolved issues after eight months of engagement between KMPDU and the Government of Kenya and lapse of 21 days strike notice issued on November 16 and suspended additional 14 days,” reads the notice on its Twitter page.
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