The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education (Kuppet) has organized a meeting with National Hospital Insurance Fund next week to iron out issues over the teacher's medical cover.
The union national chairman Mr Ombok Milemba said the union will negotiate a medical scheme that fits teachers.
Milemba said the current deductions will leave teachers paupers noting that their aim is to ensure teachers live a decent life.
“Teachers will not be able to pay loans if these deductions are not reversed and that is why we are in the forefront to find a solution to this impasse,” he said.
Speaking in Kisumu after meeting Nyanza delegates on Friday, Milemba said they will not resort to industrial action assuring that they will embrace dialogue with the fund management.
The chairman explained that KUPPET is not a member of the Trade Unions Congress of Kenya that has called a nationwide strike over the NIHF rates.
He said the aim is to make corrections in the fund and make it friendly to teachers.
“We are going to sit down and come to a consensus on a number of issues, striking will not solve this problem,” he said.
Milemba said some of the names of the hospitals that have been published by the fund do not exist. He wondered where teachers would seek medical services from if most hospitals listed were nonexistent.