Lecturers at the Moi University school of medicine who are also specialized doctors at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret town have vowed to continue with their strike despite the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) calling off their strike last Friday.
According to Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) National Treasurer Daisy Korir, the lecturers will not be resuming work any time soon as their demands are yet to be implemented.
Korir said doctors who are also lecturers are yet to be paid allowances that was part of 2017 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed between KMPDU and the government.
They have vowed to continue grounding specialized services at the MTRH and learning at the Moi University school of medicine until their demands are fully implemented.
"We ask the Ministry of Education and that of Health to put their heads together so that this strike can come to an end by paying the allowances as agreed in the CBA," said Dr. Korir.
"The money is available and we are wondering what is preventing the doctors to be given the allowances they rightly deserve," she added.
The doctors have been on strike since the end of February and are demanding inclusion in Sh800,000 million that had been allocated to pay for the enhanced allowances.