[Nominated Senator Beatrice Elachi. Photo/Courtesy]
A Jubilee senator has indicated, doctors have lost their trust in Kenyans after they failed to end their strike.
Beatrice Elachi says medics' remuneration should be increased, but however, she criticised the manner in which the 2013 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) was reached.
“I have always said we have a problem. Yes doctors have to have a remuneration but the problem was how, the how they did, the procedures they used to come up with those remunerates,” she said.
“And if they had to agree on that, today, Kenyans would have more respect to them,” she added.
The Jubilee allied lawmaker said even if the doctors returned to work, patients had already lost their confidence in them.
“I want to tell my young doctors, one of the things you lost from Kenya is your credibility,” she noted.
The Senate Majority Chief Whip disclosed the strike which kicked off December 5, 2016, had resulted to Kenyans seeking medication in neighboring countries.
“And l want to tell them today, your clientele moved on and they felt do we really have good doctors, they are now even thinking I will go to Tanzania and be treated."
She was speaking during a television interview, Monday Morning.