The government is making last ditch efforts to avert a strike by doctors set for Monday. Permanent Secretaries in the ministries of Public Health and Medical Services this evening met with Finance PS Joseph Kinyua over the impeding strike. It was decided that the government was willing to pay the extraneous allowances but from January 2012. However, the government says the 300 percent pay increase is not possible at this time, because the economy is not able to support it. Also,it will a breach of the constitution as all matters pertaining to salaries are to be addressed by the salaries and remuneration commission, which has not yet been constituted. The government officials met with officials from the doctors union at Afya House on Sunday evening,to try and find a way forward to avert a crisis in the health sector. The doctors have however walked out of the talks and declared there was no deal.

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