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Medics protest delayed pay

Resident doctors at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) want the national government and the county government of Nairobi to decide who is supposed to pay them.

Yesterday, the doctors marched to Afya House to seek audience with Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia.

Speaking for the resident doctors attached to KNH from the University of Nairobi, Bernard Oburu said they had not received their July salary despite having already received their payslips.

"There is a back-and-forth tussle between the county government of Nairobi and the National government, with each saying the other is meant to pay us. We met with Macharia and the Director of Medical services as well as officials of the county government last week but we are yet to receive the money," said Dr Oburu.

The county government acknowledged receiving a directive from the national government to pay the doctors as the matter is being sorted out, but they said they had no money to do so.

"Treasury says it has already wired the money for our salaries yet the county government says it has not received the money. We do not understand why the county issued payslips yet we haven't received the money in our accounts," said Dr Oburu. The county government has been paying the medics up to June.

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