{"id":107037,"date":"2020-12-22T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T06:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=107037"},"modified":"2020-12-22T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T06:55:34","slug":"kenya-crisis-as-doctors-join-striking-healthcare-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=107037","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Crisis as doctors join striking healthcare workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/kmpdu.png\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/kmpdu-696x460.png\" alt=\"KMPDU issues strike notice over unresolved CBA issues\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NAIROBI, Dec 22 (NNN-KBC) &#8212; Kenyan doctors have now joined striking health workers to down tools totally paralyzing service and public health institutions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU)&nbsp;announced the commencement of their strike Monday citing failure by the ministry of health to address their demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is even as the council of governors claimed some demands by the medic are unrealistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KMPDU\u00a0also cited neglect by the government as they lead the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After eight months of talks KMPDU says none of their demands have been met by the employers both in the counties and national level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctors are protesting lack of medical insurance, workman-injury benefits and compensation as well as lack of adequate personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during the burial of their colleague Dr. Stephen Mogusu\u00a0in Kisii, KMPDU officials said they will boycott work as long as it takes to have their demands met. &#8212; NNN-KBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Dec 22 (NNN-KBC) &#8212; Kenyan doctors have now joined striking health workers to down tools totally paralyzing service and public health institutions.\u00a0 The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU)&nbsp;announced the commencement of their strike Monday citing failure by the ministry of health to address their demands. This is even as the council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}