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Operations at most health facilities across the country went on without any disruptions after the High Court suspended the planned strike called by the doctors’ union to protest poor working conditions.

Most doctors reported for work at various public health facilities across the country even as their union, the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union officials held a daylong meeting with Labour Cabinet Secretary, Florence Bore (pictured) to iron out the sticky issues.

A spot check around some of the public health facilities, especially in Nairobi revealed that services to Kenyans seeking treatment went on uninterrupted.

At the Mama Lucy and Mbagathi Hospitals, healthcare workers in the two health facilities discharged their duties regardless of the seven-day strike announced on Wednesday by KMPDU top leadership. “We haven’t seen any incidences so far. I came here about an hour ago, and I have been attended to,” a patient at the Mbagathi hospital in Nairobi said.

It was the same in the North Rift despite threats by doctors that they will down tools demanding better working conditions.

A spot-check by People Daily in many facilities in the region revealed that patients were being attended to but mostly by clinical officers and nurses. Union’s officials in the North Rift said they are in solidarity with their colleagues countrywide until the government heeds to their demands.

North Rift KMPD Secretary Dr Mulei Kamonzi and branch chairman Dr Darwin Ambuka hit out at the government for turning a deaf ear on the welfare of doctors.