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Doctors’ demands offer rare glimpse into Kenya’s labour market setbacks

Texas Cancer Centre CEO Catherine Nyongesa during an interview over cancer patients agony due to doctors strike around the country at her centre in Nairobi on Friday 13/01/17. [PHOTO:BONIFACE OKENDO/Standard]

The doctors’ strike entered day 40 this week, with union officials being handed down a one-month suspended jail sentence on Thursday if they do not call it off in the next two weeks.

The Employment and Labour Relations Court had issued arrest warrants against officials of the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) and found them in contempt, after they failed to call off the strike as ordered by Justice Hellen Wasilwa.

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