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Moi Referral doctors strike after talks with management collapse

Speaking to the press earlier today, the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union branch Secretary General Kamozi Mulei accused the MTRH management of taking too long to address their issues.

Doctors at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) have today begun their strike after the hospital management failed to address their grievances that were not implemented in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).

Speaking to the press earlier today, the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union branch Secretary General Kamozi Mulei accused the MTRH management of taking too long to address their issues.

Among the issues the doctors want implemented are contractual terms for doctors which they claim are demeaning and discriminatory.

The SG noted that doctors who are employed on contract do not get the benefits those on permanent and pensionable terms enjoy.

Mulei said the doctors on contract at the second-biggest referral hospital in the country do not have medical covers offered by the hospital.

They accused the management of not remitting their statutory deductions for over four months leading to some of them being placed on CRB adding that they have not promoted them even after working for a long time.

The medics’ strike begins after the lapse of fourteen days’ notice.

Even though MTRH boss, Phillip Kirwa, said they had received the strike notice and the hospital board had met to discuss some of the issues raised the doctors have indicated that the talks failed.

“We have received the notice and we will engage the doctors to iron out the issues they have raised,” Kirwa had earlier stated.

Last week, KMPDU Secretary General Davji Atellah dismissed the MTRH board’s argument that the predicament at the referral facility has been occasioned by budget cuts from the national government.

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He said the issue of financial issues should not arise because it receives funding from the Treasury, similar to the Kenyatta National Hospital.

Attelah said services at the hospital were collapsing, yet the management had failed to give proper reasons for the situation.

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