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Medical laboratory workers are the latest frontline workers in healthcare to go on strike after the government failed to meet their demands.
The clinical officers’ 48-hour ultimatum to the Council of Governor (CoG) lapses today, and they have therefore resumed their strike, which they had called off five days ago.
Chrisphine Momanyi, secretary general of the Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers (KNUMLO), said yesterday are treated as second-rate medical care workers.
“No hospital can give accurate diagnosis without the services of the laboratory officers who have been neglected by their employer, the health ministry. For the neglect we have seen, we have decided we will stay at home and bond with our family rather than risk death in in the line of duty,” he said during the union’s demonstration at Uhuru Park yesterday.
Mombasa county government has sacked dozens of doctors, including KMPDU boss Chibanzi Mwachonda and senior specialists for refusing to return to work.
In a letter signed by county secretary Jeizan Faruk, Governor Hassan Joho’s administration dismissed 86 striking workers for boycotting duty. Following the correspondence shared between the Department of Health and the County Public Service Board on the doctors strike, the Board, pursuant to Section 59 (1) (c) of the County Governments Act number 17 of 2012, hereby conveys its decision via Special Board meeting held on January 5, 2021 that all the doctors who have failed, refused and/or neglected to return to work be dismissed from county services as provided for under Section 44 (4) (a), (c) and (e) of the Employment Act 2007 which constitute justifiable or lawful grounds for the dismissal as highlighted in the Act, the devolved unit said.
Joho fires 86 doctors, including KMPDU boss Mwachonda
Wednesday January 06 2021
By WINNIE ATIENO
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In a letter signed by county secretary Jeizan Faruk, Governor Hassan Joho’s administration dismissed the 86 striking workers for boycotting duty.
The Joho administration further instructed the doctors to immediately hand over all properties belonging to the county government to their supervisors.
Wards in major hospitals are empty with services such as surgery, maternity, in-patient, and out-patient suspended as doctors, nurses, laboratory technologists, clinical officers, and radiographers boycott duties.
Mombasa county government has sacked 86 doctors, including KMPDU boss Chibanzi Mwachonda and senior specialists for refusing to return to work.
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Lab technicians issue strike notice over unfulfilled demands
Health & Science - By
Mireri Junior | December 30th 2020 at 11:19:36 GMT +0300
Members of the Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers (KNUMLO) celebrate at Milimani courts, Nairobi after being cleared to register their own union in 2018. The union has issued a seven-day strike notice over unmet demands. [File, Standard]
Amid rising Covid-19 cases, Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers (KNUMLO) has issued a seven-day trike notice over failure by the government to address their grievances.
In a statement to media houses on Tuesday, KNUMLO general secretary Chrisphine Momanyi accused the government of failing to act on the union’s raft of demands