Striking doctors have received a stern warning to resume work with immediate effect or else face the consequences.
Speaking on Tuesday after Council of Governors meeting, Chairperson Anne Waiguru announced that unspecified stern disciplinary action will be enforced to doctors.
The CoG said doctors had defied court orders and thus will face the music without legal implications.
The Council of Governors announcement will escalate tensions in an ongoing standoff that has already seen drastic actions such as the firing of 60 doctors in Nyeri last week.
Representatives of the traders in Eldoret on Tuesday said the strike had caused a lot of pain and suffering to Kenyans.
The traders said it was wrong for anyone to downplay the role played by medics.
The traders who spoke in Eldoret were led by Stephen Mugwira and Njuguna Mwiko.
“It’s embarrassing that in modern days we can allow doctors to be on strike for over a month,” Mwiko said.
Earlier, IG Japhet Koome warns medics against causing chaos, disrupting smooth operation of hospitals while picketing, orders police to deal firmly with such cases.
Three unions—the Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers (KNUMLO), the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO), and the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) yesterday announced that the protests, which are scheduled to take place every Tuesday, are in response to the government’s purported attempts to put an end to the ongoing nationwide healthcare workers’ strike.
By Newsmedia