{"id":3090,"date":"2024-02-20T13:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/20\/healthcare-workers-in-kisii-issue-14-day-strike-notice-over-arati-goons\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:04:04","slug":"healthcare-workers-in-kisii-issue-14-day-strike-notice-over-arati-goons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/healthcare-workers-in-kisii-issue-14-day-strike-notice-over-arati-goons\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare workers in Kisii issue 14-day strike notice over Arati goons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISII, Kenya, Feb 20 \u2014 Healthcare workers in Kisii have issued a 14-day strike notice to the county government over continued threats from a group of brutal enforcers linked to Governor Simba Arati.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officials from health sector unions issued the ultimatum on Tuesday citing a hard work environment.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) Secretary General George Gibore said healthcare workers in Kisii are operating in a chaotic environment, exposing them to untold suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor has chosen to disrupt services, arbitrarily demoting and transferring staff. It is a shame!\u201d Gibore remarked.<\/p>\n<p>He said goons acting on Atati\u2019s instructions have trailed and intimidated healthcare workers perceived to be hostile to the Governor\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>KMPDU\u00a0(Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists\u2019 Union)\u00a0Secretary General Dr Dalji Chatela described the state of affairs in Kisii as shameful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last two years, we have witnessed cases where doctors who are doing work and when they get sick their salaries are stopped arbitrarily,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe specialists are also working in very poor conditions,\u201d Chatela explained.<\/p>\n<p>Several health staff, among them doctors, have been denied study leave while others have been transferred to remote dispensaries, Chatela noted.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said they would only call off the strike intended for March 4 if the county heeds the demand to retract the dismissal of doctors and reinstate their salaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not begging as a union but demanding that these issues must be addressed before 4th March,\u201d Chatela told journalists.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISII, Kenya, Feb 20 \u2014 Healthcare workers in Kisii have issued a 14-day strike notice to the county government over continued threats from a group of brutal enforcers linked to Governor Simba Arati. Officials from health sector unions issued the ultimatum on Tuesday citing a hard work environment. Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) Secretary [&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-3090","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\/3090","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=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}