Fresh crisis looms as Mombasa medics threaten strike over pay
Medical workers in Mombasa have asked the public to brace for a “prolonged health crisis” as doctors, nurses and other health employees down tools starting today to protest delayed salaries and non-remittance of salary deductions.
Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) chair Coast branch Dr Ahmad Mkuche, speaking at the weekend, announced that health workers unions will mobilise their colleagues to paralyse services in all the public facilities in the county.
It will be the second time health workers are downing their tools over salaries in less than three months after a similar strike in December last year. Hassan said all the unions including KMPDU, Kenya National Union of Nurses, Kenya National Union of Medical Laboratory Officers, Kenya Health Professionals Society, Kenya Union of Clinical Officers and Kenya National Union of Pharmaceutical Technologists among others have joined hands to down tools.
“We have realised that the county has been toying around with our lives. After every two months they hold our salaries. It is like a cycle,” Mkuche said, noting that they have not been paid their January and February salaries.
Kenya National Union of Pharmaceutical Technologists Secretary Juma Abdalla Ali said they are also firmly in solidarity with other health workers.
