[Kenyan doctors in a past strike. Photo/Courtesy]
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union has accused county governments of failing to pay doctors even after they (doctors) honoured a return-to-work formula that saw them end a 100-days strike.
The medics, through their union bosses have threatened to go for another strike if they are not paid.
“We won’t work without pay. So if anyone wants to replay the 100 days of the doctors’ strike, we won’t hesitate to give them another 200,” KMPDU secretary general Ouma Oluga said, in a statement seen by the Daily Nation.
The KMPDU boss revealed that no promise that was agreed in the return-to-work formula had been fulfilled to date.
This is despite president Uhuru Kenyatta giving a directive that doctors be paid for the days they had downed tools.
“Doctors have not received a single cent of the allowances, which were added, or received four to five months’ pay and our timelines for being placed in the job groups have passed,” Oluga said, Monday.
He noted that doctors were being victimised by a section of national and county government officials.
“Doctors have been stretched thin and won’t continue working when they can’t afford basic needs,” he added.
The Council of Governors chairman Peter Munya last week said doctors had not received their dues in their respective counties since the Treasury had not provided the money.