The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union officials have disclosed that Mombasa, Bomet, Kwale, Siaya, Nakuru, Nairobi and a seventh unnamed county as counties that have failed to pay their doctors salaries for December.
The union officials, however said that 40 counties had so far paid doctors who are taking part in a nationwide strike in a bid to force the government to implement a Collective Bargaining Agreement that they signed with the Ministry of Health in 2013.
KMPPDU chairman Samuel Oroko said the respective counties must pay the striking doctors their salaries even after they boycotted duties.
“In the past six months, doctors have not been earning salaries in various counties, so we are not perturbed, Counties have also been delaying salaries, so let them keep the salaries for us. But they will pay all of it” said KMPPDU secretary general Ouma Oluga while addressing over 100 doctors in Mombasa over the weekend.
Health Executive from Kwale Kishindo Mwaleso said the county will not pay striking doctors their December salaries since they did not work.
“We got a circular from the Ministry of Health and the Council of Governors only to pay health workers who worked in December, you are only paid when you work” said Mwaleso.