Another Doctor's strike

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…Doctors strikes are in their last stages of preparations in the counties due to:

  1. No salaries despite resumption of duty
  2. Lack of implementation of the RTWF
  3. Victimization yet there was a No victimization clause in the RTWF
  4. Arrogant utterances and irrelevant circulars from MoH meant to demean the RTWF

Despite you kenyans knowing the above, you will still blame the doctors yet you know the problem lies in the devolvement of ministry of Health. A sensitive docket concerning people’s lives being managed by arrogant, selfish, men in suits in the name of governors who view the ministry as a cash cow for their own personal gains…

Kenyans should come together and demand a referendum to return Health back to National Govt, before its too late.

Don’t say you were not informed!!

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very sad and unfortunate.

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Who do this guys fight with exactly…Counties or Government…Seems like the former coz they want to go back to govt

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…sure it is…but it seems someone wants to keep fighting doctors…of which nobody understands of what gain it is to them at the expense of innocent, poor, malnourished, thirsty kenyans

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…County strikes…but the grievances are all the same…the strikes will start with the counties then a national one will always be the mother of all…

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what is their argument this time? i have never understood why your colleagues mistreat you when they occupy the med sup’s or MOH’s office…

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…fahali wawili wakipigana…nyasi huumia…everyone including the poorest would like the health to be taken back to National govt but the counties wameshikilia this health docket with all their might…its their cash cow…at the expense of your health

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…i also wonder…but its like kenyans wamerogwa…mtu akipata kacheo hivi, i think the slogan is simply…‘ITS MY TIME TO EAT’…na kufinyilia wadogo wake

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Too unfortunate…but somehow I agree with doctors the health sector can be managed well from the central govt.the constitution need lot of amendment not only on health matters

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…Just sit back and watch how the health has cartels and mafia…they will start by painting how doctors are selfish, if it doesnt work…itumbi will be a facebook warrior with propagandas of how doctors are paid highly, fake figures will be published allover, if that doesnt work, they will try to tarnish the leaders names by a similar screenshot of a made status update depicting the leaders as tribal…as they did.

instead of solving issues, there is fighting back at the expense of the hungry, thirsty, poor kenyan

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Tuko na mole wetu @Luther12 wacha akuje aseme

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I say, let counties compete to be the best health provider, then we we will have real competition in the health sector. Renumerate the health service workers well on condition they provide the best services, ortherwise fire and hire ( poach from another county)…

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…they can’t…there are health cartels that run health just like coffee cartels

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But it would be an injustice and daylight robbery if doctors are paid salaries for the 100 days they were AWOL

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…according to constitution…its the right of every worker to go on strike…if the govt was willing, it would have resolved th strike in the first two weeks which i didnt…its not the doctors fault that the strike lasted that long…mostly blame chairman CoG for incompetence, blame Former PS and CS health for supremacy battles…

Its the right of a striking worker to be paid even on strike

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But seriously, did they just expect to go back to work like nothing happened? There must be repercussions my fren.

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It is illegal to go on an illegal strike then demand payment.

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Then go to court uone kama watalipwa. Just ask teachers

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@MaryJane…what made the strike illegal? what procedures that are meant to be followed in calling of a strike that were not followed…inform us, you seem to be more informed!

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[SIZE=6]Chuka County Referral Hospital faces closure:
[B]By ALEX NJERU
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Chuka County Referral Hospital is facing closure due to a lack of funds, which led to disconnection of water supply and caused food stores to become empty.

The medical facility has not received any funding from the county government of Tharaka Nithi for the past nine months and this has caused suffering among patients.

Three weeks ago, the water supply was disconnected due to an unpaid debt of Sh2.7 million, creating a great risk of disease outbreak at the hospital.

The medical facility is facing a shortage of essentials including food for patients, syringes, bandages and fuel for the only one operational ambulance and other vehicles.

A nurses’ strike, which entered its 55thday on Friday, has paralysed the hospital.

Contacted, the County Executive Committee Member for Health, Magdalene Njeru, said she had borrowed money from other departments to pay for water and buy essentials.

She blamed the situation to delays of disbursement of money by the National Treasury and said the national government had not refunded money for the free maternity program.

“I admit there is problem but we are also waiting for funds from national government,” Ms Njeru said.

She blamed the medical facility’s management for failing to buy basics like food and bandages.

“The hospital has not been operating totally without a coin and I cannot keep visiting every facility to know what is lacking,” she said.

Speaking to the Nation, patients at the hospital said they were being asked to buy almost everything including syringes.

“I had to go back to Chuka town to buy syringe in a private chemist so that I could get treatment,” pne, Mary Kageni, said.

A spot check by the Nation established that most of the departments were not offering services either due to lack of essentials or because of the nurses’ strike.

We established that situation was almost the same in other facilities like Magutuni and Tharaka sub-county hospitals.

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