By Moses Punyuah, Nairobi Kenya.
The nationwide strike by clinical officers entered its eighth day on Tuesday, as the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) announced plans for countrywide demonstrations on January 7 to pile pressure on county governments.
The union says the industrial action, which began on December 23, is lawful and aimed at enforcing a return-to-work agreement signed on July 8 last year after a seven-month strike, and later adopted as a court order.
Speaking at the Kisumu County Referral Hospital, KUCO Secretary General George Gibore said failure by the Council of Governors to implement the agreement had left the union with no option but to resume the strike. “We are enforcing a court order. Everything we agreed on last year became a court order and must be implemented,” Gibore said.
KUCO maintained that the strike will continue until all counties fully comply with the court-sanctioned timelines, warning that health services will remain disrupted unless the agreements arehonoured.
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