The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has hit out at Nairobi governor Mike Sonko accusing him of allegedly politicising the management of Pumwani Maternity hospital.
The doctors claim that Sonko is playing politics with the hospital management.
KMPDU Chairperson Samuel Oroko says that the manner in which Governor Sonko handled the alleged discovery of 12 bodies of infants at the hospital was unprofessional.
Speaking to journalists in Nairobi on Tuesday, the doctors union asked Sonko to stop interfering with their work.
The union also issued Sonko with a seven-day ultimatum to reinstate the doctors he suspended on Monday over the infants saga.
“We will not allow the Nairobi governor to continue intimidating our members and he should prepare to battle with us in court if he continues this way,” Oroko said.
The doctors threatened to call a strike if Sonko does not reinstate the suspended doctors.
They said that the Nairobi governor should have handled the matter within the existing structures instead of rushing to social media when he had no information of what had transpired.
“There are clear structures on how to handle such issues and we will not allow the Nairobi governor to move around intimidating and sacking professional doctors,” Oroko said.
On Monday, Sonko suspended Puwmani hospital superintendent Catherine Mutinda and two other top officials over the infants saga.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has since launched investigations into the shocking discovery.
A section of city politicians among them Kibera MP Ken Okoth and Senator Johnson Sakaja have called for a through probe into the saga.
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