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    "id": 1384082,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1384082/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "national Government have not shown any plans of transitioning them and converting their terms of service to permanent employment as per the Kericho Declaration; THAT, further, the health workers under the UHC contract have not received gratuities for their previous three-year terms served and have no communication regarding the reasons for the delay and when to expect the said gratuities; THAT, while all other unions in other sectors have concluded Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) with their respective employers, the unions in the health sector have been subjected to frustrations and what appears to be a deliberate intent to deny them their right to CBAs; THAT, the petitioners’ efforts to resolve these matters with the Ministry of Health and other relevant bodies have not been fruitful despite their numerous requests for audience and engagements; THAT, the matter presented in this Petition is not pending before any court of law or any constitutional or legal body. Therefore, your humble petitioners pray that the National Assembly through the Public Petitions Committee: 1. Investigate the reasons for the failure by the Ministry of Health to facilitate the posting of graduate interns for mandatory internship since September 2023 and recommend immediate posting of the affected interns and institution of measures to ensure internship posting henceforth; 2. Inquire into the circumstances surrounding the failure by the Ministry of Health to transition health workers contracted under the UHC in 2020 to permanent and pensionable terms in accordance with the Kericho Agreement of 18th September 2023; 3. Intervene to cause the Ministry of Health to absorb all the UHC health workers and other contracted health workers into permanent or pensionable service in order to address the acute shortage of staff in the health sector; 4. Recommend to the Ministry to immediately address discriminatory disparities in compensation of medical interns and instead apply fair remuneration as per the Salaries and Remuneration Commission terms pegged on job grades; 5. Recommend that the pending CBAs and Recognition Agreements be concluded expeditiously; and,"
}