Thika MP Alice Ng'ang'a at a past event. He has accused the opposition of using the ongoing doctors strike to campaign against Jubilee government. [Photo: plus254.co.ke]Thika Town MP Alice Ng’ang’a has slammed the opposition accusing it of using the ongoing doctors’ strike to campaign against President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The MP claims that the opposition has taken advantage of the strike to incite doctors against the government.
Speaking to journalists at Thika Town on Thursday, the MP said that negotiations to end the ongoing doctors’ strike might not be fruitful since everything has been politicised.
He accused the opposition of allegedly inciting doctors and frustrating the negotiation process.
“It is unfortunate that the opposition has politicised the doctors’ strike and is using it to campaign,” she said.
The MP stated that for doctors’ negotiations to be fruitful politics has to be kept out.
He asked the opposition to allow the government address the striking medics concern without politicking on it.
Doctors under the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) have been on strike since December 5 last year.
The doctors’ are demanding full implementation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) they signed with the government in 2013.
On Monday this week, seven KMPDU officials were sentenced to a one-month jail term for disobeying a court order to call off the strike.
The officials were later released after a Court of Appeal order.
Striking medics have vowed not to resume work until when the 2013 CBA will be fully implemented.
This comes as a section of politicians call on President Kenyatta to personally intervene and have the doctors’ strike called off for the sake of suffering Kenyans who have no access to medical services in public hospitals.