Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacist and Dentists Union (KMPDU) North Rift Brach Secretary Ismael Ayaibei addressing the press in Eldoret town on Thursday, January 18, 2018. [Photo/Elvanis Ronoh].
Doctors working as lecturers in schools of medical services have threatened to go on strike by January 31, 2018 due to the failure by all public universities to pay them the allowances negotiated by KMPDU.
Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacist and Dentists Union (KMPDU) North Rift Brach Secretary Ismael Ayaibei said the allowances were supposed to be paid by 1st January 2017 and up-to-now nothing had been done.
"It is sad that despite KMPDU signing a Return to Work Formula (RTWF) and registered a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the Ministry of Health, the medical doctors, pharmacists and dentists numbering over 600 across all the Public universities are yet to have their salaries adjusted as per RTWF and the CBA," he said in Eldoret town, Thursday.
"We will paralyze all medical services in both government hospitals and all colleges of Health Sciences. Why are we treated as if we are not Kenyans," he added.
He reiterated that despite numerous engagements with the Universities Administration, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health has yielded no fruits.
“KMPDU is giving a stern warning to Universities Administration, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health that any further discrimination of these doctors will lead to the union taking legal and industrial action that could lead closure of all medical schools and colleges of health sciences,” noted Ayaibei.
“We are giving them up to 31st January is nothing is done we will go on strike,” he added.