The Kenya Union of Clinical Officers says its members will remain on strike until the Council of Governors heeds their demands for increased allowances and enhance health cover through NHIF.
Their media statement came shortly after Labour Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui said the government is close to realising a deal to end the health workers strike.
The clinical workers are demanding among other things improvement of their risk allowances, personal protective equipment and enhanced medical cover.
“Threats, intimidation, the dismissals will not solve the health crisis that we have now,” said Peterson Wachira Chair KUCO.
Since the start of the year, governors have remained firm in their refusal to sign a return-to-work formula that would be the final missing link to healing the health crisis and send clinical officers back to work. The clinical officers now say doctors have been treated better as they are left in the cold.
