{"id":8482,"date":"2024-03-04T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/kmpdu-issues-7-day-strike-notice-over-promotions-interns-posting\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T15:04:42","slug":"kmpdu-issues-7-day-strike-notice-over-promotions-interns-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kmpdu-issues-7-day-strike-notice-over-promotions-interns-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"KMPDU issues 7-day strike notice over promotions, interns\u2019 posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 4 \u2013<\/strong> <strong>The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Union\u00a0(KMPDU) has issued a 7-day strike notice after negotiations with the government over promotions and posting of interns collapsed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO), the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), and the Kenya Union of Nutritionists and Dietitians advised their members to prepare to down their tools after 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Unions had earlier walked out of the negotiations after the Ministry of Health officials said the demands could not be met citing a lack of adequate funds.<\/p>\n<p>The medics who began their procession on Monday morning also marched to the National Treasury office where they sought a meeting with the Ministry officials<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya Union of Clinical Officers and the Kenya National Union of Nurses last week had given the government until Friday to communicate on the way forward regarding the issue of Universal Health Coverage staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Union said the one-year period agreed upon to have the staff absorbed on permanent and pensionable terms is fast approaching.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 4 \u2013 The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Union\u00a0(KMPDU) has issued a 7-day strike notice after negotiations with the government over promotions and posting of interns collapsed. Meanwhile, the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO), the Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), and the Kenya Union of Nutritionists and Dietitians advised [&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-8482","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\/8482","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=8482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}