Nditi says doctors’ resignation insignificant

Embu deputy governor Dorothy Nditi has dismissed as insignificant the recent resignation of 16 doctors saying the medics were afraid of being supervised.

She said most of the medics operated private clinics outside the county but drew salaries from the county and did not work in local hospitals as required.

Speaking at the county headquarters, Ms Nditi said the medics were afraid that they would be strictly supervised and would not get time for private practice.

She said her government had signed a working schedule with all medics and those who did not attend duty as required would be dismissed.

“This is an issue we want to address decisively. If someone was having his pay point at Embu but was not working in Embu and then they purport to have resigned, I don’t think we have a problem. They have not been working for Embu in the first place,” she said.

AFRAID OF SUPERVISION

“We are saying that if we are paying you, then you are supposed to work for the county for certain days or hours. It is because of supervision that they are behaving that way,” added Ms Nditi.

She said the county was conducting an audit of its staff to establish the exact number of workers who were there and which areas had excess staff or deficit.

Ms Nditi said the issue was not unique to Embu adding that counties had inherited either inadequate or bloated workforce.

“Where we have gaps, we will have them filled and where there are excesses we will see what to do with them,” she said.

Ms Nditi said the county was currently using only 30.7 per cent of its Sh4.02 billion budget on development but was working on various austerity measures to cut on recurrent expenditure to boost development.

She said she would focus on improvement of road infrastructure, provision of water, health and education.