The agreement on the return-to-work formula has been signed by the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists Dentists Union (KMPDU), as confirmed by the Ministry of Health in their statement, effectively bringing an end to the doctors’ strike across the country.
“After 56 days, KMPDU signs agreement, ending nationwide doctors’ strike,” MOH said.
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However, the negotiations, chaired by Health CS Susan Nakhumicha and attended by officials from the Ministry of Health, State House and KMPDU, reached an agreement on all contentious issues except the posting of interns and their salaries.
The government claimed that it could not engage KMPDU on the issue of payment of Sh206,000 to the interns as the matter is currently before the court.
“The government cannot engage in subjudice; we cannot write something in a document as an agreement that is a matter of court determination. That court has not told us to go and register a consent,” CS Nakhumicha told KMPDU.
“It is the union that went to court, if it were the government, we could have withdrawn our court case so that we sort it out once and for all but we have no control over the court case.”
