@famooz ...in reply to your disagreeing with me ..doctors have a side in this too. The lack of facilities is a genuine problem, regardless of its use as a reason for the strike. Where you work you expect a desk, chair, working phone, stationery and computer perhaps? Another thing, not all doctors have clinics. I know a few who were my roommates back at the old UoN,..in the early years it is really hard graft. The doc may be sent to a far flung hospital to work there. It takes time to live, work and save enough to even start a practice. Consequently its only fairly senior doctors who have clinics, those recently graduated, anything from 1 to 7 years since qualifying don't have anything. In any case, I think it is a chicken-egg scenario, as in, would the doctor feel compelled to duck the govt hospital and run a clinic or do hours in a private hospital if they were well paid? You pay people well first, then enforce a performance contract.
You have talked of a 'better strategy', which I have highlighted. What strategy is this? How come they haven't thought of it and made it work before? The minister has treated them contemptuously - even refusing to talk! This is a particularly sore point for me. How do you deal with such an entity? And why shouldn't this govt deal with this problem?
Finally let me pose a question that should provoke some thought. If the KE govt was to source foreign doctors, how much do you think that would cost? Because by firing them, Nyong'o is engaging in dangerous brinkmanship