Kenyan doctors under their union,Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union have threatened to start a fresh strike to lament over unpaid dues.
The doctors are demanding to be paid for the three months they were on strike.
''If the salaries are not paid by the 31st of March then Kenyans should then know that their government did not want the strike to end.We will have no other option but to go back on strike,'' said KMPDU Secretary General Ouma Oluga in an interview with NTV on Tuesday.
The government side has on the other hand defied the demands with Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Maillu saying that the doctors cannot receive a salary they did not work for.
He said that the government can reconsider other decisions it had made during the strike but the salary issue is completely out of the debate.
''Letters of discipline and dismissal and other issues can be reconsidered because we really need the doctors back but there is no room for unworked for salary,'' said the CS.
The doctors are however saying that the government is victimizing them,contrary to the return to work formula signed between them,the Ministry Of Health and the Council of Governors which indicated that there should be no oral or verbal victimization through threats or punishments after they resume work.
''When we signed the agreement,there was an entire clause number 3 saying that all punishment would be revoked but the government is already dishonoring the agreement.One can only be denied salary as a disciplinary measure,'' he continued.
This comes at a time when the government is in the progress of importing additional doctors from the Tanzania and Cuba to increase the number of health officers in the nation.
KMPDU Secretary General Ouma Oluga greets striking doctors outside the Milimani Law Courts in a past event. He has said that doctors will again down their tools should they not receive the salary for the 3 months they were on strike[Photo/the star]