The government has urged doctors to return to negotiating table stating that it is ready to resolve issues raised.
Addressing a press conference, government spokesman Isaac Mwaura said the state is keen on safeguarding the health of Kenyans.
“Even if the matter of the intern doctors is in court, we are willing to negotiate in order to safeguard the health and lives of Kenyans,” he said.
Doctors have said they will go on strike on December 1 to protest government's failure to honour the Return-to-Work Formula (RTWF) they signed back on May 8.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists (KMPDU) Secretary General Davji Atellah on Wednesday said the government has had seven months to implement the agreed salary scales but has failed to do so.
The doctors have vowed that this time round, they will not embrace the spirit of dialogue.
"We are saying this without any fear of contradiction
that when we call strike nobody should come to us and sell to us the aspect of
goodwill or the aspect of negotiation because seven months is far too long for
somebody to keep on making promises.
"It will be time to implement the agreements that were signed and adopted as court orders."
Atellah said the announcement will be made on November 30 during the national delegates conference at the Safari Park hotel, Nairobi.
The conference will bring together doctors from the public and private sectors with the sole agenda to issue a national strike to ask the government to honour its side of the bargain, Atellah said.
"We know it will be a sad situation that time but the government is entirely responsible because they are failing to honour agreements and they are failing to honour court orders," he said.
"The government will equally take the blame for the innocent Kenyans who will lose their lives during our total shutdown that is coming in the month of December."
