Doctors have declined the government's offer, after they met president Uhuru Kenyatta and top Ministry officials, in bid to end a nationwide strike that commenced on December 5, 2016.
Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) members and officials led by secretary general Dr Ouma Oluga and Chairman Dr Samuel Oroko said the government's offer addressed one of the many raised concerns.
Oroko said they would not accept the deal, since the government declined to address other issues signed in a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed in 2013.
"Once 2013 CBA is accepted as the basis of the negotiations, the implementation can be negotiated,'' said Prof Ogola, who represented Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) consultants.
The officials addressed the press at Railways Club, Nairobi, January 6.
During a meeting convened by President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House Mombasa January 4, the government offered to raise the Enhanced Emergency Call allowance and would cost government over Sh4 billion.
The deal would be as follows:
– Increase to Sh66,000 from the current Sh30,000 for Job Group L – an increase of more than 100 per cent.
– Increase to Sh72,000 from Sh30,000 for Job Groups M-P — also an increase of much more than 100 per cent.
– Increase to Sh80,000 from Sh30,000 for Job Groups Q and above.
Government also offered a new Doctors’ Risk allowance at a flat rate of Sh10,000 per month.
The sum total of the government’s offer means that the minimum gross salary for doctors would increase to Sh196,989 from the current Sh140,244 at full implementation at the current entry Job Group “L”.