This came as doctors from the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, resumed duty after signing their return-to-work formula with the hospital board in a Naivasha hotel. KMPDU said KNH and MTRH unlike other public health facilities, had individual collective bargaining agreements, which had to be signed separately for them to resume work.
Addressing the press during the deal-signing ceremony, union secretary general Ouma Oluga said KNH doctors would stay away until their agreement was signed. He lashed out at the KNH management for the delay, adding that they were in the dark on why the signing had not been done.
“Patients at KNH will continue suffering. The management, for reasons best known to them, have failed to sign the return-to-work formula,” he said.
“The return-to-work formula is clear on the issue of victimization and sacking, and anyone threatening the doctors is living in his own world,” Oluga said.
MTRH board chairman Adam Hassan termed the 100 days that the doctors were on strike painful as many patients had gone through untold suffering. He said with the signed document, there will no longer be strikes, adding that the board will work with the management to fix staff problems.
“The board will fully support the management so that in future, we don’t have to undergo what we went through in the last 100 days,” he said.