CRY OF INTERNS AT THE COAST GENERAL HOSPITAL OVER DELAYED PEYMENT

By Emmanuel Boaz The interns are planning to call a nationwide protest on the 7th of this month for delayed payment of their wages. Around 900 interns now owe the government over sh 500,000. The interns were selectedby the ministry of medical services in March and commenced work on the first of April. At the coast general hospital around 40 interns are calling out for the payment of their salaries.

“Many of us have been having debts and we were waiting for the payment by the governmentand have areas for 5 months now. We are taking our cries to all Kenyans because we have been pushed too much to the wall and we are not able to take it anymore,” Said Dr Mohammed Sudi “If the government will not have given us the payment by the 7th, we will not have an option butall doctors, nurses and other hospital operators will down our tools,” Dr Mohammed Sudi concluded. This is a country wide problem.