No end in sight as doctors maintain hard stance

Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union officials led by their Chairman Samuel Oroko (second left) and Secretary General Dr Ouma Oluga(centre) address the Press at Labour offices in Nairobi yesterday. [PHOTO:BONIFACE OKENDO/Standard]

There is still no light at the end of the tunnel after a five-hour meeting to end doctors' strike yesterday ended in a stalemate. As the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) are demanding nothing less than implementation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed in 2013, the government yesterday is said to have tabled an offer that was unanimously rejected.

The offer was to see the highest paid doctor earn Sh450,000 while an intern pockets Sh180,000. This is away from what the doctors' demand in the CBA that if implemented will see the lowest paid doctor in Job Group L make Sh325,000 and the highest get Sh825,000.