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"content": " Senator for Meru, what is your intervention?"
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"content": "PETITIONS BY MEDICS ON CBA COMPLIANCE AND ABSORPTION OF CONTRACT UHC HEALTH WORKERS"
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, a few minutes ago, you asked the Senator for Nairobi City and I to go and listen to our brothers and sisters, who belong to the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU). We went there and received their petitions. The first petition is on non- compliance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and non-remittance by the Social Health Authority (SHA) concerning 2.7 per cent deductions towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The second petition is on unfair terms of service and delay in absorption of all the 8,571 health workers under UHC contract. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we did what you sent us to do and they agreed that we look for a way forward. I request my colleague, the Senator for Nairobi City, to give the way forward because we have proposed something to them, so that we appear to be a serious House. I thank you."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, first of all, I thank you for the confidence in both the Senator for Meru and I to execute that duty that you sent us to do on behalf of the House. Indeed, we have had a conversation with members of the KMPDU and also UHC workers from across the country. They were the guests who were making all that merry outside our gate. As the Senator for Meru has said, these are not new matters. It is compliance by the national Government and the county governments with a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that was signed after that long strike that we had with Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentist Union (KMPDU). Apparently, the concerned Government agencies are not complying with that. Secondly, they say that even though the counties are deducting the 2.75 per cent of Social Health Authority (SHA) every month, they are not remitting it to the Authority. Therefore, these are medical practitioners who are taking care of us, but when they fall sick, the SHA is not honouring those claims because the county governments are not remitting the 2.75 per cent that they deduct. That is unacceptable. It is in the place of this House to ensure that there is compliance by county governments in terms of remittance of all deductions from salaried workers. Lastly, there is the issue which we have discussed here many times about absorption of the Universal Health Care (UHC) workers, especially those who are not working in national hospitals. We had that debate here where a few of their colleagues were absorbed and now they are on permanent and pensionable basis. Those who were not absorbed have the same roles and execute the same workload, but they are paid almost three times less than their colleagues on permanent and pensionable basis. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have our suggestion to them and they have agreed. We want to beseech this House to deal with this issue with the sort of dignity that it requires. We cannot have our medical practitioners on the streets out there. We have invited them and I The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "hope that you will agree to this, hon. Speaker, to a meeting that will happen with the Committee on Health of this House. We have proposed that we invite the Chair of the Council of Governors (CoG), who are representatives of the CoG, together with the Cabinet Secretary responsible for health. We will provide the necessary environment for all these issues to be ironed out in a manner that will leave everybody satisfied on the challenges that the Government is facing on the CBA and all these other issues of absorption of UHC workers. From then on, we can at least see light at the end of the tunnel. I hope that the Senate will adopt that proposal that we have made together with my colleague from Meru as a way forward for this matter. I thank you."
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"content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker and the Senator for Nairobi City. Now, Hon. Senators, do not get irritated when Kenyans come petitioning this House. In fact, it goes to prove one thing, the trust and confidence they have in you as a leadership. Therefore, whenever these things happen, it is good to give these people a shoulder to lean on. Listen to them, and as a leadership, let us seek for solutions that will address their problems. Now, having listened to the Deputy Speaker and the Senator for Nairobi City, I direct the Secretariat through the Clerk, that a meeting be caused between the Committee on Health, CoG and the Cabinet Secretary for Health to discuss this matter. That meeting should be called as soon as possible. We know we are going on recess on Thursday. Let that be done within the first week of the recess, so that we get to the bottom of this and offer solutions. I would not want to be the Speaker who presided over public relations with such heavy matters. Those workers who have petitioned Parliament are leaving with a lot of hope that some solutions will be found by this House. Let us not let them down. Let that meeting happen and they will, of course, be attending. I believe if all the stakeholders are brought on the same table, we should be able to fashion a wonderful way forward."
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"content": " Yes, Hon. Senator."
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