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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Doctors employed in Kenya’s public hospitals went on strike on Monday, saying the government is risking their lives by forcing them to treat COVID-19 patients without adequate protection and not insuring them for treatment if they fall ill.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union, with 7,000 members nationwide, announced their decision late on Sunday on Twitter. It said the government had not responded to grievances the union has been raising since March when the country reported its first coronavirus case.
“It’s about the safety and welfare of the doctors,” Chibanzi Mwachonda, secretary-general of the union, told Reuters on Monday. He said the country’s fight against the coronavirus would be badly hampered by the doctors’ walk-out, but said the medics had no other choice.
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English By Mohammed Yusuf Share on Facebook Print this page NAIROBI - Kenyan doctors Monday joined clinical officers and nurses in a nationwide strike that is likely to make it harder for patients to receive treatment. Doctors called the strike after talks with the government regarding pay and coronavirus protective gear broke down.
Kenya’s health facilities are facing a crisis after doctors joined other health workers to demand better pay, medical insurance coverage and better protective equipment to help them combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Chibanzi Mwachonda is the secretary general of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists’ Union. On Monday, he attended the funeral of a doctor who died of the coronavirus. Speaking to journalists in Kisii county while attending the burial service, Mwachonda said the government is yet to accept their demands.
Kenyan doctors go on strike protesting against inadequate benefits, PPE Reuters > By Reuters - 21 December 2020 - 13:15 An unknown medical worker wheels a patient towards the consultation cubicle at the emergency section of the Kenyatta National Hospital during a doctors strike, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Nairobi, Kenya December 21, 2020. Image: THOMAS MUKOYA
Kenyan doctors working in government hospitals began a countrywide strike on Monday over inadequate insurance benefits and lack of protective equipment while treating Covid-19 patients, their union said.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union said on Twitter late on Sunday that there had been no resolution of grievances raised over the past eight months.