Governors convene emergency meeting over striking medics.

The Council of Governors (CoG) called for a special meeting on Wednesday, to discuss the national doctors' strike and the enforcement of the court orders that the Employment and Labour Relations court imposed last week. 

The Council of Governors (CoG) called for a special meeting on Wednesday, to discuss the national doctors' strike and the enforcement of the court orders that the Employment and Labour Relations court imposed last week. 

The meeting was scheduled to take place at a time when the nationwide strike was going into its thirteenth day, with doctors from Meru and Nakuru counties taking to the streets to demand that the government respond to their demands.


Drs., medical interns and medical students from Nakuru marched from the Nakuru Annex Hospital to the Nakuru Teaching and Referral Hospital, passing through the Governor's office on their way.

The nearly four-hour-long rallies were intended to put pressure on the government to quickly enact the 2017 collective bargaining agreement and respond to demands made by doctors.

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Steven Omondi, Secretary, KMPDU, South Rift Region, stated, "We are out for a reason and those reasons are not solved. We will not go back to work...our peaceful demos to urge the government to fasten their belt to ensure the issues are sorted as fast as possible."

Doctors in Meru County protested in Meru town against the government's intentions to deploy medical interns on April 1st, after cutting their stipends by more than 90%.

"We shall not accept, we are citizens of this country, by reducing their stipends." KMPDU Eastern Region Chairperson Dennis Mugambi said,

The doctors ' strike is still ongoing, which is negatively impacting patients who are seeking care in public hospitals.

Theatre services at the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital have been discontinued.

 Steven Omondi, Secretary, KMPDU, South Rift Region, stated, "We are out for a reason and those reasons are not solved. We will not go back to work...our peaceful demos to urge the government to fasten their belt to ensure the issues are sorted as fast as possible."