- Azimio said it is concerned with the ongoing doctors' strike that has paralysed services in the facilities.
- He said that the response from the regime has not only been inadequate but also completely out of touch with the reality facing Kenyans.
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Azimio Coalition has threatened to mobilise other unions and the public to a nationwide strike should the government fail to resolve the health crisis.
Addressing the media on Wednesday, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka called on the government to take advantage of the time given by the court to sort out the doctors' strike.
The Labour and Relations court on Monday ordered the striking doctors and the government to reach an agreement within 48 hours.
"We ask the Kenya Kwanza regime to take advantage of the 48-hour window given by the court and immediately reach an agreement with doctors," Kalonzo said.
"This will ensure resumption of normalcy in public hospitals, failure to which, we shall mobilise the public and other unions to join in a national," Kalonzo said.
Kalonzo said that the opposition has noted efforts by the doctors to end the strike but there has not been a commitment from the government.
He said that the response from the regime has not only been inadequate but also completely out of touch with the reality facing Kenyans.
Azimio said it is concerned with the ongoing doctors' strike that has paralysed services in the facilities.
"The doctors’ strike continues to highlight the incompetency of the Kenya Kwanza regime in dealing with the healthcare system in the country," Kalonzo said.
On Tuesday, doctors said they will comply with court orders to agree with the state on a return-to-work formula within 48 hours.
Their union had previously said it would not honour court orders that suspended the strike on March 13, accusing the government of also disobeying orders.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists Dentists Union chairman Abi Mwachi said they will comply with the latest orders.
“Our KMPDU national advisory council held a meeting to plan on how to comply with the orders. It is incumbent upon both teams to rise to the occasion and show leadership, especially at such a time where the stakes are rising with every passing day," he said.
"The judge ordered that we merge the two solitary RTWFs into a converged document within 48 hours. We are ready to comply as the KMPDU."
Last Friday, during a Whole of the Nation Approach Committee meeting with the state, the two sides failed to agree to end the strike.
Union Secretary General Davji Atellah claimed they were ambushed by an RTWF that was not agreeable to them.
KMPDU insisted the document from the negotiations was incomplete and could not be a return-to-work formula.