KMPDU: Meetings to resolve return-to-work formula have bore no fruits

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The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union has said it has held meetings with the Ministry of Health but it has bore no fruits. https://shorturl.at/PWThI

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00:00We have been having a lot of meetings, from last week, Tuesday, where for the first time

00:07we made a breakthrough on the issue of implementing CBA.

00:14I must say that through the week and over the weekend we had to crack figures and numbers

00:23with the union leaders together with the inter-representatives to see how to comply to the retired work

00:29formula that was signed on 8th of May, 2024.

00:35At that point, the number of doctors that could be posted was 552, but then there was

00:44not any criteria that could work.

00:49It's not possible to only post the doctors that graduated through the job process because

00:55the scores aren't enough.

00:57It's not possible to post doctors who went through the Module 2 program.

01:02It's not possible to post doctors based on the cohort of completion.

01:06For those who have stayed for one and a half years, for those who have stayed for two years,

01:11for those who have stayed for one year, there was not any working mechanisms that can allow

01:16for batch posting of doctors or the cohort posting.

01:22And we went out for the opinion to sort the issue of part of the doctors and then come

01:29back here again 30 days later to start the same process.

01:33It's tiring and it's exhausting.

01:36And therefore yesterday we spent over 10 hours trying to crack out and to see mechanisms

01:45to make sure that all the interns are posted today, that we're going to have a commitment

01:51and a plan so that within this month all the interns will be at their places of work.

01:58We're going to have a meeting from noon.

02:02And I must say, unfortunately, that meeting has not taken place today.

02:09And therefore we are where we were yesterday or we don't know the progress today.

02:16And partly from the meetings, from the engagement I was having upstairs, was that it's impossible

02:23to have progress on these engagements if we are both demonstrating and sitting.

02:29So probably that's one reason that we're being given.

02:34On the other side, we are being told to proceed and do the demonstrations and the vigils because

02:43after that day we can have engagements.

02:45So here today, doctors, we're at a point that we have to strategize and get things done.

02:53I know we have an impasse, but our anger, our frustration, our disillusionment is not

03:03the solution.

03:05We must know and decide to take the next possible action that is possible to solve this matter

03:11within the next hours.

03:13And as MPDU, we are retreating to our sitting with the National University Council leadership

03:21to discuss the mechanisms to which we can employ to resolve this matter once and for all.

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