📌The law favors those who do not sleep on their rights but instead seek to enforce them vigilantly.
vigilantibus et non dormientibus
Day 56...✊
Safeguard Public Healthcare
Safeguard Kenyans
Safeguard Doctors
@kmpdu
#DoctorsStrikeKE
📌Strike Day 41
A cabinet of circuses. Sitting to set salaries & salaries cuts for doctors. Total abuse of power,country laws & existing legal frameworks.
We have only one message : Implement CBA in toto & pronto.
@citizentvkenya
@srckenya
@PSCKenya
@kmpdu
#DoctorsStrikeKE
It's Day 38 of the doctors' strike in Kenya. The government says it can't afford to pay them but the medics say they refuse to "supervise deaths" in ill-equipped hospitals.
Our CNN report on
#DoctorsStrikeKE
with
@MichelleVelezF
@mufabs
📌 Straight From Labour Court :6.5.2024,Day 54
GoK one-sided & unilateral RTWF CANNOT stand.
Parties minds MUST be in marriage.
Consummation ordered in 48hrs.
✓Implement CBA.
✓Implementable common & consensual RTWF.
@kmpdu
@Branicemercy
@Dr_AustinOmondi
#DoctorsStrikeKE
Budgeting?Wage Bill?
LABOUR EXPLOITATION.
Labour Laws Violations.
Who benefits?Private Businesses.
Weakened Public Healthcare.
Wage Slavery.
Social Dumping.
A race to the bottom.
It is about PLANNED PRECARIOUS JOBS.
@kmpdu
#DoctorsStrikeKE
Patients before Politics
#ImplementCBA
To normalize a 5month SALARY DELAY is deep exploitation. Pay demands cannot be wished away by coercion & threats. It's dehumanizing & immoral to expect work from the exploited.Doctors demand a cure from SICK HR practices.
#paymedicalinternske
📌Our voices & efforts needed: PUSH for PRIORITIZATION of PUBLIC HEALTHCARE sector. Bad name reputation,neglect & undermining-plan to stealthily privatize healthcare. Most Kenyans & the proud middleclass CANNOT afford private care
@_fels1
@kmpdu
@IEAKwame
@thekhrc
@AmnestyKenya
News just reaching our desk is that
@KmpdcOfficial
finally called the quack drs hired by
@kutrrh
for a peer review before being licensed.ALL FAILED EXCEPT ONE!To imagine that these were the people who were going to be entrusted with our cancer patients is chilling to say the
A CBA CANNOT be wished away by Amnesia. The Doctrine of the Most Favourable Rule.
#FavourabilityPrinciple
SRC Act of 2011,Section 12, the Commission shall also be guided by the principle of equal remuneration to persons for work of equal value.
@srckenya
@PSCKenya
@kmpdu
@COTU_K
In Governor’s own admission, Nyeri county with a population of 800,000 has 59 doctors, translating to 1 Doctor for 13,560 people. WHO recommends a ratio of 1:1000 Doctor to population. Prioritize healthcare!
#DoctorsStrikeKE
𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐲𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞
Today, at Afya House, the inaugural meeting of the joint task force on the review of medical education and training in public and private
Dr. Kahura Mundia – Deputy Chair KMPDU: The government was fully represented during the signing of the CBA and we entered the agreement in good faith. There are no new demands that we are asking for. The governments should simply comply with our agreement.
#NewDawn
Systematic undermining & underfunding of the PUBLIC Healthcare Sector. No staffing standards and norms.60yrs later. Majority of Kenyans even those in the middle class cannot afford a month of private care hospitalization.
#SafeguardKenyans
@SamGituku
@NAssemblyKE
@kmpdu
@COTU_K
SRC Chair told me that the middle class which is affected by higher taxes don’t seek services at public hospitals thus not affected by doctors strike.
Might we have okayed Poor services in public sector because there are options?
Also, why do citizens pay taxes?
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom & the enemy of growth" ~J.F Kennedy
Social Dialogue-Deliberate & Progressive talks between parties. We CANNOT afford to trash Doctors Affairs by legitimizing UNFAIR Labour Practices.
Decent Dignified Work ✊🏽
@kmpdu
#DoctorsStrikeKE
Dr. Kahura Mundia: Daktari amenyanyasika sana kwa miaka nyingi. Serikali inakosea sana wakenya na madaktari. Tunangojea President akuje kama atakuja next month, kama atakuja next year kokote akishamaliza safari zake tuko tayari kuskizana. Wajumbe ametuma hawaelewi kazi ametuwekea
KMPDU Secretary General Davji Atellah: The clinical trainings in the University of Nairobi has been suspended beginning today. We will maintain the strike until the government realizes it is their responsibility to cater for kenyans to get health care. The issue of the interns
One sided consent. A holey agreement. Full of leaks & porosities. An agreement amongst Spindoctors. Real doctors CBA still stands. Awaits implementation.
@kmpdu
#SafeguardKenyans
Patients before Politics
#SafeguardDoctors
Safeguard Public Healthcare
#DoctorsStrikeKE
Day 52..
This evening on behalf of the National Government together with Head of Public Service Felix Koskei, Labour and Social Protection CS Florence Bore,Solicitor General Shadrack Mose in compliance with the High Court ruling,I signed a return to work formula to end the 52 day long
Aluta continua, vitória é certa'
The struggle continues, victory is certain
Throwing under the bus, fictional narratives by enemies of progress, generals and lovers of chaos, disarray and disorder.
@kmpdu
The way a nation thinks determines in the end the quality of its governance.
— Benjamin DeMott
This is mediocre and pedestrian reasoning by a high ranking government official in charge of public service, and if such type of reasoning can be entertained at cabinet level then
Ledama Olekina – Senator, Narok: The doctors are saying there's wastage of public funds and the gov't doesn't care about the needs of the people if you look at the travel budget (Ksh. 11.3B) of the national gov't alone. They are saying they are overworked and need more doctors to
We don't even have 2000 registered dentists and in Kenya. The number of practicing dentists is less than 1000. There has NEVER been a year where even 100 dentists graduated. HOW dare they cook numbers like this. BUDGETED CORRUPTION!
#DoctorsStrikeKE
Establishment of a HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE AUTHORITY
MOOT POINT : Transfer of functions & powers between levels of government
Article 187, Kenyan Constitution of 2010:
@kmpdu
@Senate_KE
@NAssemblyKE
@KenyaGovernors
Big Banner Hosting: -Healthcare is a right; Kenyans denied healthcare by failure to employ Doctors to deliver healthcare. UHC struggles.
#DoctorsStrikeKE
The government of Kenya wants forced free labor from post graduate students at KNH and MTRH. Think about that, internalise it.
@kmpdu
make sure tukitoka Misri tusirudi tena.
@MiskellahMD
@Davji
@DrMundia
The plan for doctors labour exploitation. Government officials running Covert Healthcare Privatization agendas. Since 1967 Junior Doctors have served in the Kenyan Healthcare System. Terms set and defined by Public Service Commission.
#SafeguardDoctors
@kmpdu
#DoctorsStrikeKE
This logic is dangerous, and that's why we must revisit the idea of
#payinterns
which people were pushing for a few years ago.
We cannot demand people to get certs to practice and then refuse to pay them. That's extortion. We need to decide what quality of professionals we want.
They have turned doctors into food delivery agents. Nothing wrong with a delivery job but no one should be pushed into labour they are not happy with after 7 years of training. Who will save this nation?
Once rescued a lady who had been hit by a nduthi along Mbagathi road.
Took her to Mbagathi hospital.Those 2 hours at that hospital tramautized me.
Stench of blood, faeces and so many victims of stabbings, accidents, alcohol poisoning kept streaming in.
Doc alikuwa mmoja peke and
Vigilantibus, non dormientibus, subveniunt jura.
The laws assist those who watch, not those who sleep.
@kmpdu
Day 54
#DoctorsStrikeKE
Safeguard Doctors.
Safeguard Public Healthcare.
#ImplementCBA
The Living Spirit of Articles 36 and 41 of the Kenyan Constitution.
It's fascinating how medics have used LEGALISM to go over the hurdle of CBA. It's more Machiavellian than Machiavelli himself. A blue-print for sure, whatever the final outcome.
EMPLOYMENT OF DOCTORS. Some counties have never employed even a single doctor for the past 3/5 years amid severe shortage.
@kmpdu
Must ensure that after todays meeting
@KenyaGovernors
should advertise for employment immediately in all counties on pnp basis as a bare minimum.
Police,KDF,Teachers,Judges, Magistrates,Prosecutors,State Counsels+many public officers have permanent &pensionable terms.Doctors-critical staff in national health security remain casualized in public service.
@kmpdu
@cotu
#DecentWork
#DoctorsStrikeKE
Alarming revelations have surfaced regarding the practices at Gertrude's Children's Hospital after a troubled parent shared his harrowing experience at the renowned medical institution.
From Medical Malpractice to Coercive Surgical Recommendations and Financial Extortion.
This
Salaries are ever due at the end of 30 days. To withhold salaries for over 5months is inexcusable. It's a stinking breach of employer-employee relations.This practice has gone on for far too long,over 15yrs in a digitized world,chronic delays on all new employees pay!
@MOH_Kenya
📌pacta sunt servanda.
agreements must be kept.
On 21.4.2024 interparties strike discussions & negotiations stalled. Continuity planned on 3.5.2024 on specifics of draft return to work agreement.
No agreement or consensus arrived at.
#ImplementCBA
#DoctorsStrikeKE
@kmpdu
We have subjected our DOCTORS to negative energies,when all is said and done,this NEGATIVE energies can only be transmitted in equal measure to poor and unsuspecting patients who happen to rejoice in electing megalomaniac "leaders".we are watching
📌Before employment in any sector an employer MUST disclose existence of :
1. HR manuals
2. CBAs to prospective employees.
Terms of engagement must be aligned and in consonance with the above and existing labour laws.
@kmpdu
@_fels1
@gabrieloguda
@citizentvkenya
@COTU_K
We note with concern the inflammatory statement issued by the Inspector General of Police; terming the ongoing strike by Doctors and Clinical Officers as a public nuisance and instructing his officers to “deal with such situations firmly and decisively”. We condemn the
📌The Musyimi Task Force Report on Healthcare Sector Reforms of 2012 remains as a blue print to good order. From here there was CBA 2013 with GoK disowned.
Police,KDF,Teachers,Judges, Magistrates,Prosecutors,State Counsels+many public officers have permanent and pensionable terms in public service BUT Doctors who are critical in NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY remain casualized
#DoctorsDemandDecentWork
#DoctorsStrikeKE
We respectfully disagree with the pronouncement made by the Hon. Cabinet Secretary of Health, Madam Susan Nakhumicha
@Nakhumicha_S
, regarding the sufficiency of Ob-Gyns in our country....
(1/2)
#KOGSNawe
📌The Mountain in Labour
A mountain was in labour, uttering immense groans.On earth there was very great expectation.But it gave birth to a ridiculous mouse. (Horace.c19 BC)
Empty promises & a one-sided signing circus.
#DoctorsStrikeKE
@kmpdu
Implement CBA.
Safeguard Kenyans.
Establishment of a HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE AUTHORITY
MOOT POINT : Transfer of functions & powers between levels of government
Article 187, Kenyan Constitution of 2010:
@kmpdu
@Senate_KE
@NAssemblyKE
@KenyaGovernors
Kenyan's Constitution of 2010, Article 41 :
Right to Fair Labour Practices includes :
✓Fair remuneration
✓Reasonable working conditions
✓Forming, joining or participating in a union
✓Going on strike
✓Collective bargaining
@kmpdu
#DoctorsStrikeKE
@COTU_K
#TogetherWeStand
Honor Doctors.
Implement CBA.
📌pacta sunt servanda.
agreements must be kept.
Safeguard Kenyans.
Safeguard Public Healthcare.
#QuitCircuses
Real Doctors versus Spindoctors
#DoctorsStrikeKE
@kmpdu
Doctors refuse back-to-work deal
Doctors have been given until Monday 9.30 am to sign the return to work formula agreement between the union and the government.
#NTVAtOne
@Karanja_Ibrah