The enhanced deal was actually a Sh10,000 increase of the medical risk allowance, initially set at Sh10,000 in the initial offer doctors were given in Mombasa. Had the doctors accepted that offer, their annual wage bill as a singular budgetary item would be in excess of Sh14.5 billion. The government is now also reviewing the registration and certification procedures of the doctors’ union with a view to reverting its functions back to the Ministry of Health. But, even with the additional pay, the doctors took issue with some of the other issues. “Intern doctors will be paid more money than doctors in Nairobi Hospital, Aga Khan and others,” said the President.

Source: Daily Nation March 07, 2017 21:11 UTC