Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha has threatened to fire doctors who are not reporting to work She said that the government was doing its best to avert the negative effects of the looming health crisis because of the nationwide doctors’ strike Nakhumicha said that this crisis will help Kenyans know her true colours, saying that the government was planning to recruit qualified but unemployed doctors....CONTINUE READING
Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha has assured that she is doing all within her power to resolve a looming health crisis after Kenyan doctors went on strike.
The doctors are striking in protest against an unhonoured Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between them and the national government.
The CBA was signed in 2017, bringing to an end 100 days of a nationwide doctors’ strike that left patients in agony.
In an interview with KTN News on Wednesday, March 20, Nakhumicha threatened to fire the striking doctors, claiming plans were underway to recruit at least 3,000 qualified unemployed medics.
She also faulted the CBA for including intern doctors, saying the latter were students who needed practising licenses, not government employment.
She stated that she had 50 interns who were willing to work without any stipend just to get a practising license.
The first-time CS expressed confidence in herself and her capabilities to run the Ministry of Health, telling Kenyans to watch out for who she really was.
Nakhumicha disclosed that she had given instructions to recruit doctors, adding that the ministry was considering another cadre of interns (clinical officers and nurse interns) as part of averting the looming crisis across the health sector.
She dismissed the assertion that the government was overlooking grievances raised by the striking doctors, saying her ministry was focused on issues that it was party to in the CBA.
Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha has threatened to fire striking doctors and replace them with qualified but unemployed counterparts.
Kenyans were angered by the government after it pegged the intern doctors’ stipend at KSh 27,000 The doctors went on strike, accusing the government of failing to implement a negotiated Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA.)…CONTINUE READING>>
