Kisii residents who depend on medications at public hospitals will have to wait a little longer after doctors refused to resume duties, it has emerged.
Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union Nyanza chairman Dr Kevin Osuri announced on Wednesday that the strike is still on.
"We wish to state clearly here that we are not reporting to work until our 2017/18 CBA is fully implemented. The agreement was legal and binding," he said.
According to him, efforts to end the strike which is in Day 8 have failed to materialise after the county government of Kisii remained non committal.
"This is our 8th day of the the strike and we are not planning to relent. Unfortunately, we have been treated to innuendos and sarcasm by the county," added Dr Osuri.
In their bargain, the doctors want government to give promotions to qualified medics, pay health insurance and allow them to continue with further studies.
"CBA is a document that ought to have been effected in 2017. We demand that all doctors to be promoted, be given health insuarance cover like any other Kenyan and be released to further their studies so that they can add knowledge and help suffering citizens," he said.
The medics have maintained that they will not succumb to legal threats by the county government, terming them as cheap threats which cannot shake them.
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