Oparanya lectures Nakhumicha for spending more time in funerals than her office

"You keep belittling doctors thinking they are nurses. The thing with doctors is that they have side hustles to sustain them while the strike goes on. They may carry on for as many months as they can as our people suffer." Added the former governor

Last week the CS was in Transnzoia county at a funeral which turned chaotic but she found time on the microphone to blame cartels for the unrest in the department.

Oparanya, a former Planning minister cautioned the minister to tread carefully with the doctors as "you are dealing with bright people who scored straight As and A-(minuses) perhaps better marks than yourself in high school."

Nakhumicha, a diploma holder, had earlier described her helm at the health ministry as more phenomenal than that of any of her predecessors.

According to her, she had rid the sector of cartels who crippled services and what was remaining was for Kenyans to sit down and wait for improved services.

"Ask around and you will be told, in my short span in office I have initiated the highest number of laws aimed at streamlining the sector," she said.

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula however, said the CS was doing a good job and "should keep up."

The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacist and Dentists Union (KMPDU), has accused the government of threatening to sack them rather than solving their pay trouble.