The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has scheduled a peaceful march and has asked for police protection.
In a letter to Nairobi Regional Police Commander Adamson Bungei, KMPDU Secretary General Davji Atellah urged police personnel to ensure security for the Tuesday parade.
The physicians will meet at Kenyatta National Hospital, then at the Ministry of Health, the Council of Governors, and ultimately at the National Treasury.
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This declaration comes just two days after the Inspector General of Police, Japhet Koome, declared that physicians had become a public nuisance by holding strikes and processions without informing police personnel, which he claims is against the law.
A statement from the IG on Sunday detailed how “the medics have become a public nuisance, blowing whistles and vuvuzelas during the demonstrations thus causing discomfort to patients in hospitals and the general public.”
The doctors, together with the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), Katiba Institute (KI), and Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), would subsequently react to Koome, demanding that he apologize and retract his comments by 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 14.
"In your retraction, you must also apologise for the violent attack by police on Dr. Davji Atellah on 27 February 2024," the statement went on to say.
