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Medics unions push back on government call for dialogue, scoff at threats to fire them

Doctors and other health workers camp outside Parliament on April 9, 2024. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Two striking medics' unions have dared county governments to sack their members and blamed county governments for derailing talks aimed at resolving the crisis in the health sector, which continues to worsen.

The Kenya Union of Clinical Officers, said the statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Special Programs, Florence Bore, calling on the Unions to embrace dialogue and resume duty as negotiations continue, should not have been directed at the medics.

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