Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has revealed plans to expose some 2,100 doctors he claimed earned jobs with fake degrees.
Speaking during an interview on KTN, Kuria said that out of the government employees found to have fake degrees, some of them were doctors who have been drawing salaries from the taxpayers.
Kuria said he had planned to publish the names of the 2,100 doctors with questionable degrees on Wednesday, April 24, but held back due to an ongoing court case.
In his reflection on the demands by doctors in the ongoing strike, CS Kuria expressed his concerns over the high number of doctors required to be absorbed as interns every year.
According to him, recent changes in the education system had allowed students with lower grades to pursue medicine, leading to an influx of graduates.
As such, he proposed a move to reconsider the minimum entry requirements for the medicine course to regulate the number of people graduating in the field.
“Shouldn’t we then be limiting the number of people doing medicine. People are going to all kinds of universities doing medicine even at floor qualification,” he said while giving examples of institutions he claimed offered medicine courses to students with grade C+.
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The CS made the remarks while answering questions on the demand by doctors requiring the government to reinstate the Ksh206,000 salary previously paid to medical interns.
Moses Kuria insists on shift to contract employment
At the same time, Moses Kuria insisted on his plans to change terms of employment for government employees from permanent and pensionable to contract-based employment.
He told off critics of the proposal stating that those opposed to the idea were “free to exit”.
Kuria said the proposal was meant to ensure accountability and productivity in the public service at time a doctors’ strike had paralyzed healthcare services in the country.
His remarks came a day after the CS made public his plans to table a proposal before the Cabinet for consideration which would see the government switch to contract employment.
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Public Service Principal Secretary Amos Gatheca in a letter dated April 23 wrote to the Attorney General and Solicitor General notifying them of a meeting meant to address the proposal.
The doctors’ strike entered its 43rd day on Thursday, April 25, with the government accusing doctors of being dishonest and disregarding court orders.
On Tuesday, April 23, Cabinet secretaries led by Head of Public Service Felix Koskei announced that 18 out of the 19 issues raised by doctors in their strike had been addressed and urged the striking medics to end their over a month-long strike.
However, the doctors failed to show up in a meeting organized by the government and instead insisted that the last demand regarding the remuneration of interns must be met.
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