{"id":914953,"date":"2022-01-10T10:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T10:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/10\/clerics-petition-mombasa-county-to-pay-doctors-arrears\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T10:09:02","slug":"clerics-petition-mombasa-county-to-pay-doctors-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/clerics-petition-mombasa-county-to-pay-doctors-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"Clerics petition Mombasa County to pay doctors\u2019 arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cbednwvebofqpm8uhy61dbc70a41f5e.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Sparki Mosque Imama Sheikh Abu Hamza at a past event in Mombasa.<\/strong> [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Religious leaders have asked Mombasa\u00a0County\u00a0to\u00a0pay\u00a0doctors their November and December salary arrears to avert a strike planned to begin tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Mombasa, Majlis Ulama said the doctors were within the confines of the law to issue a strike notice to the\u00a0county\u00a0administration and it was upon the employer to address their grievances. <\/p>\n<p>Led by Sheikh Abu Hamza, the\u00a0clerics, blamed the devolved government for putting to risk the lives of residents, who depend on public hospitals for medical services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey care less because when they are sick, they are flown to South Africa, Germany and the United States of America while the majority of our residents suffer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"9nR5XsEqhSI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unhealthy standoff: Doctors in Mombasa down tools due to delayed salaries\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9nR5XsEqhSI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0clerics\u00a0called on Governor Hassan Joho to implement all outstanding labour issues raised by the disgruntled doctors and other health workers to avert industrial action that would ground health services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should\u00a0pay\u00a0their two-month salary arrears, address promotions issues and provide them with compressive NHIF insurance cover. All these should be done without delay,\u201d added Sheikh Abu Hamza. <\/p>\n<p>The religious leaders argued that it was unfair for doctors and other health workers to stay for two months without salaries during the Covid-19 pandemic. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same\u00a0county\u00a0government that purports to have no money to\u00a0pay\u00a0doctors, spent millions of shillings to hire musicians to perform during New Year day party at the Mama Ngina Waterfront Park,\u201d said Sheikh Abu Hamza.\n<\/p>\n<p>Coast KMPDU Chairperson Hassan Ahmed said the\u00a0county\u00a0government has been unable to address their grievances.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"justify-content-start\">\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nMombasa Doctors<br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nSalary Arrears<br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001433950\/clerics-petition-mombasa-county-to-pay-doctors-arrears\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparki Mosque Imama Sheikh Abu Hamza at a past event in Mombasa. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard] Religious leaders have asked Mombasa\u00a0County\u00a0to\u00a0pay\u00a0doctors their November and December salary arrears to avert a strike planned to begin tomorrow. Speaking in Mombasa, Majlis Ulama said the doctors were within the confines of the law to issue a strike notice to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}