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Governors Sakaja, Njuki hold discussions with KMPDU to avert doctors strike in January

From Left; Governors Muthomi Njuki (Tharaka Nithi), Johnson Sakaja (Nairobi) meet KMPDU Secretary General Davji Atella and KMPDU chairman Abi Mwachi in Nairobi on December 28, 2022 [Standard]

Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja (COG Labour) and his Tharaka Nithi counterpart Muthomi Njuki (COG Health) met with the national leadership of the doctors union on Wednesday, with an aim of averting an industrial strike set for January 2023.

This is after the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists Dentists Union (KMPDU) warned on December 19, 2022 that the intent of notice would expire on December 28, 2022, after which a strike notice would be issued.

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