Doctors set to down tools

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By NATION CORRESPONDENT
Posted  Sunday, August 26  2012 at  21:04

IN SUMMARY

• The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacist and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has asked all its members at Kenyatta National Hospital, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and Mathare Hospital to down tools after the government failed to honour a return-to-work agreement signed in 2011.
• The doctors’ union says that eight months after signing the agreement to end a strike in 2011, some of the most essential terms are yet to be implemented.
• KMPDU is also complaining about the selective payment of call and extraneous allowances.

Operations at the country’s three referral hospitals could be paralysed as doctors and nurses are set to go on strike on Monday.

The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacist and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has asked all its members at Kenyatta National Hospital, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and Mathare Hospital to down tools after the government failed to honour a return-to-work agreement signed in 2011.

Allowances and training

The doctors’ union says that eight months after signing the agreement to end a strike in 2011, some of the most essential terms are yet to be implemented.

KMPDU is also complaining about the selective payment of call and extraneous allowances.

It also says that doctors training for their masters’ programmes have been “slaving” without pay at the country’s three major hospitals.