Health CS Cleopa Mailu: Why we cannot implement doctors' CBA

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, Health CS Dr. Cleopa Mailu and other Health Ministry officials addressing the press on the dilemma of doctors refusal to accept the offer of 40% increment. Doctors hold on implemetation of CBA as signed in 2013.  [PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE/Standard]

Health Cabinet Secretary Dr Cleopa Mailu has revealed that the only way to honour the doctors' demands is to exclude them from the category of civil servants.

The CS said the doctors demands contained in the contentious Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) are not in line with requirements of civil service hence Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) cannot permit the implementation.