February 2017 BusinessDaily; Health Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri declined to head a ministerial team that was formed to negotiate an end to the doctors’ strike with jailed officials, his boss Cleopa Mailu told Senators yesterday, highlighting the deep rift among top Afya House officials. Dr Mailu, the Health Cabinet Secretary …
Read More »KENYA: KMA announces closure of private hospitals for 24 hours over jailed doctors
February 2017 TheStar; The Kenya Medical Association has announced the closure of all private health facilities for 24 hours starting Monday midnight. They said this will be in protest against the imprisonment of doctors’ union officials following the latter’s incarceration for contempt of court. The notice was issued through the …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors halt talks, prepare vigils for 7 jailed officials
February 2017 CapitalFM; Doctors are planning to hold month long vigils in solidarity with seven of their top union officials who were jailed Monday for contempt by the Industrial and Labour Relations court. Following the ruling, Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union (KMPDU) Nairobi Branch Secretary General Thuranira Kaugiria stated …
Read More »KENYA: Health CS, PS rivalry to blame for doctors strike, says Atwoli
February 2017 DailyNation; Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary General Francis Atwoli wants President Uhuru Kenyatta to reign on Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu and Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri to end the ongoing doctors’ strike. On Sunday, Mr Atwoli admitted that had been unable to end the doctors’ strike, …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors claim private sector’s hand in impasse
January 2017 StandardNewsPaper; Doctors are now blaming ‘influential hands’ from the private sector for the unresolved strike that has dragged on for eight weeks. The medics are expected back in court tomorrow for further direction after their one-month jail sentence was suspended for five days to give them room to …
Read More »KENYA: Governors to employ doctors on contract to ease work
January 2017 DailyNation; Governors said they will employ doctors on a three-year renewable contract as opposed to the current permanent work terms. This, they said, will help them engage the doctors on a more sober manner as compared to now when they are permanent and under the national government. The …
Read More »KENYA:Give us more time for talks, doctors tell court
January 2017 DailyNation; Doctors have moved to court seeking an extension of the negotiation period with the ministry of Health over their pay demands. Through their eight union officials, they want the Employment and Labour Relations Court to temporarily halt their previously suspended jail sentence and allow more time for …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors reject pay offer as jail beckons
January 2017 StandardNewspaper; Hopes to end the ongoing impasse between doctors and the Government were yesterday crushed after the medics declined an offer they were given. The offer that Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu said was unanimously agreed on at a meeting that started at 6am yesterday, would have seen …
Read More »KENYA: Patients continue to suffer as doctors’ strike continues
January 2017 DailyNation; Far reaching effects of the debilitating medics’ strike on Thursday continued to sink in with more than 200 people succumbing to their ailments, Saturday Nation can report. Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu this week failed to release the exact figures of Kenyans who have died, but going …
Read More »KENYA: Trainee doctors join medics in strike, urge talks on CBA row
January 2017 BusinessDaily; Doctors’ strike, now in its 47th day, has taken a new turn with the medical students joining the fray, piling pressure on county governments to seek an amicable solution. University students matched from Kenyatta National Hospital to the Ministry of Education offices and ParliamentBuildings demanding quick end …
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