Saturday,
March 03, 2012 - The civil servant representative body is threatening
to paralyse all government operations by mobilising all public servants to join
the nurses’ strike on Monday if the Ministry of Health does not intervene by
then.
“The public must be well informed. What we are looking
for is not only money the services we are giving to them are inadequate. Let
the government come out in public and tell us clearly, for how long are we
going to innovate on how to serve the people of Kenya? How often are they supplying
drugs into the hospitals and why are they discriminating against the workers in
this country?” Odege posed.
New Nyanza Provincial Hospital-Kisumu that had ignored
the strike call on Thursday downed their tools on Friday paralyzing the
hospital’s operations. Nurses at Kenyatta National Hospital failed for second
day to join their colleagues.
“New Nyanza hospital joined the strike today and all
services there are paralysed,” Odege stated.
Mr. Odege told the nurses at Kenyatta National Hospital
not be intimidated or persuaded to not join their colleagues in the strike
action
“Don’t allow anyone to cheat you, if there is any
promise or an agreement, it must be done in public. Our signatures on the
agreement must be signed in public and that agreement will only be binding when
it’s made public, signed and made legal. So before telling us there is an offer
on the table, we want that offer made public,” he told the striking nurses.
The nurses had called off the strike called in December
to coincide with that called by physicians after their representative body
Kenya Health Professional Society struck a deal with the government to avert
total paralysis of the health sector.
“On our side we are in agreement except for a few areas
which we are still trying to correct so that it is binding but we are in
agreement,” KHPS National Chairman Luke Kodambo had said.
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