Doctors have threatened to start their countrywide strike from next week if the Jubilee government fails to meet their salary demands.
Speaking in Nairobi at a press conference on Monday 29th July, the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentist Union called on Kenyans to be ready to go without medical services in all public hospitals from next week if the salary stand-off between them and the government will not have been solved.
Mr. Sultani Matendechero, KMPDU's secretary general, said doctors from all public hospitals will travel to Nairobi on Monday to seek audience with the relevant bodies and institutions.
"We hope that our concern will be addressed with expediency so as to avoid prolonged closures at these facilites", said Matendechero.
He also noted that the KMPDU members have not been paid their July salaries and that there is no indication as when it will be made.
"We have reliably established that this delay is due to efforts to hurriedly transfer personal emoluments and health services to the counties", Mr. Matendechero claimed.
He also added that the decision of the government to rush into transferring health services as well as doctors' salaries and allowances to the county government is ill-advised saying that the county governments in question are not yet functional.
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