{"id":12259,"date":"2024-03-12T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/countywide-doctors-strike-to-kick-off-thursday-after-talks-fail\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:03:12","slug":"countywide-doctors-strike-to-kick-off-thursday-after-talks-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/countywide-doctors-strike-to-kick-off-thursday-after-talks-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Countywide doctors\u2019 strike to kick off Thursday after talks fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 12 \u2013 The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has announced the countrywide doctors\u2019 strike will kick off on Thursday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the union\u2019s Secretary General Davji Atellah, this is after talks over promotions and interns posting with Ministry of Health officials failed to bear fruit. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is sad that despite availing ourselves for meetings at the Ministry of Health, there has been no worthwhile development to report to you and tomorrow midnight, our strike notice shall expire and our Industrial action will begin,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after KMPDU issued a 7-day strike notice on March 6, for the withdrawal of doctors\u2019 services in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>KMPDU, led by Atellah held protests on February 29, over the delay in posting of 1200 medical interns to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha had dismissed KMPDU\u2019s demands as being unrealistic, saying the ministry\u2019s hands are tied regarding the posting of medical interns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot do anything as a Ministry, it\u2019s up to the Treasury to facilitate. The government cannot cater for over 3,000 interns at this time, they have to be realistic,\u201d Nakhumicha said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 12 \u2013 The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has announced the countrywide doctors\u2019 strike will kick off on Thursday. According to the union\u2019s Secretary General Davji Atellah, this is after talks over promotions and interns posting with Ministry of Health officials failed to bear fruit. \u201cIt is sad that despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}