CoG chair Peter Munya.Photo/the-star.co.ke
The Council of Governors has stated that the allocation of funds provided by the National Government to pay doctors’ during the 100-day strike are not yet in the counties.
In a statement, the CoG said that the Senate must approve allocations for the counties to draw the funds.
“In order for this allocation to be disbursed to counties, the supplementary allocation must be approved by the Senate through an amendment to the County Allocation of Revenue Act of 2016. Currently, these funds cannot be disbursed to counties until the Senate meet to make these very important amendments,” read part of the statement.
It further explained that County Governments do not have extra allocation within their budgets to cater for doctors’ salaries.
“We are therefore appealing to the Senate to pick up this issue as of when it resumes its sittings and to urgently dispense of it as a matter of national interest to allow counties to be able to meet its payment obligation to the health workers.”
It explained that counties were to receive an additional allocation of Sh1.5 billion for the half year.
Since the calling off of the strike, doctors have been threatening to strike once again over the failure of counties to pay them.