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Governors to withhold pay, hire new health staff

“We have to ask ourselves whether that strike was genuine especially given the timing of the strike. You are aware it was two days before all of us went for the 50th anniversary despite the fact that what they were asking was still in place,” he observed.

He said it was wrong for health workers to break a court order and yet they needed more laws to guard them.

“We shall hand them over to their rightful employer who is the County Governor. We have engaged everybody to make sure we get a solution…obviously they were not keen. If the child keeps on breaking glasses everywhere, you will take the baby back to the mother,” he stated.

He revealed that a health bill will be ready by end of February next year.

On Monday, the Industrial Court extended orders prohibiting health workers in public hospitals from going on strike until December 24.

The order comes after the Attorney General through his representatives Paul Ojwang and Peter Ngugi applied for extension of the barring orders saying that they were unable to serve the Kenya National Union of Nurses, Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union, Kenya Health Professionals Union, Seth Panyako (Kenya National Union of Nurses Secretary General), Matendechero Sultani (KMPDU Secretary General) and Moses Lore – who are listed as respondents in the case – with the previous order due to public holidays last week.

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