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'We will enforce justice': Doctors issue strike ultimatum to counties

By David Njaaga | May. 4, 2025

**Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union Secretary General Dr Davji Atellah in this photo taken on April 26, 2025.** [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Doctors have threatened to strike if Nakuru, Laikipia and Kajiado counties fail to implement their part of a labour deal by May 24.

Speaking during the South Rift Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Nakuru on Saturday, Dr Davji Atellah, secretary general of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), said counties had been given a red notice to fully honour the May 2024 Return-to-Work Formula and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

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