Hundreds of Kenya doctors protest in support of strike
The Peninsula
Nairobi: Hundreds of hospital doctors joined a demonstration in the streets of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday as a nationwide strike by medics...
Nairobi: Hundreds of hospital doctors joined a demonstration in the streets of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday as a nationwide strike by medics neared its fourth week.
About a dozen riot police in pickup trucks monitored the protest, which was not authorised by the authorities.
Members of the 7,000-strong Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) have been on strike since March 13 to demand better pay and working conditions, disrupting health care at the country's 57 public hospitals.
Wearing white lab coats and blowing horns and whistles, the doctors chanted "solidarity forever" as they marched to the health ministry, where they blocked the entrance gates.
"We are more than willing to go back to the hospitals but the effort being put (in) by the government is not enough to end the human suffering," KMPDU deputy secretary general Dennis Miskellah said.
