Nairobi Hospital doctors to strike Monday as hospital insists on operations

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By Mate Tongola | Sep 16, 2024
The main entrance to the Nairobi Hospital. [File, Standard]

Doctors at the Nairobi Hospital now say that they will not admit patients at midnight on Monday, September 16, 2024.

In a press statement, the doctors insisted they continue their go-slow until the incumbent board of directors resigns.

"The general public is therefore notified that there will be no more new admissions in the Nairobi Hospital and the doctors will only attend to patients in the wards, their private clinics, and emergent cases only," the statement read in part.

In a quick retort, the Nairobi Hospital management has assured the public that operations at the facility were going smoothly.

The management took to its official X platform to reassure of its smooth operations despite the strike.

"We would like to assure the general public that our operations are going on smoothly. We urge our partners and stakeholders to ignore reports going around in sections of the media about an impending strike by our doctors," the statement read.

The doctors stated that their strike is part of their efforts to force the Nairobi Hospital Board of Management to resign and have called for an extraordinary General Meeting on September 18 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Nairobi, from 2:30 pm.

"We call upon the support of all members of the public of goodwill, who are desirers of sustained quality health care from the Nairobi Hospital, to rally all possible assistance," it stated.

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