KMPDU CONDEMNS POLICE BRUTALITY ON SEC GEN AND CEO KMPDU DAVJI ATTELLAH AND OTHER DOCTORS DURING PROTESTS.

BY VICTORIA MOVINE 

The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union KMPDU has yesterday condemned the brutality that was metes on doctors protesting on Thursday 29 which led to alleged attempted assassination of KMPDU Secretary General Dr. Davji Atellah during the peaceful protests.

According to KMPDU, the uniona had given a notice on 26 February 2024 to the Regional Police Commander, OCPD Kilimani police station and OCS Capital Hill police station on the intended demonstration form KMA center in Upper Hill, to the ministry of Health and finally to the National Treasury. 
Secretary General and CEO KMPDU Dr. Davji Atellah during the protest on 29 February 2024.

The notice was purposed to raise the plight of intern doctors who have stayed home for the last 8 months awaiting what they termed as compulsory internship before they get licensed to practice and the specialist doctors whose school fees have not been paid for the last four years. 

In contrary, the Capital Hill police station deputy OCS Mr. Evans Kangangi shot Dr. Davji lAtellah in the head as teargas canisters were fired at the doctors leading the injury of 25 doctors during the demonstrations. Dr Atellah is currently at a Nairobi Hospital in the High Dependency Unit (HDU). 

The union promised not to take the incident lightly and demanded that first: The CS Interior to apologize to doctors, second: Inspector General of police and the Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) to take action on Mr Kangangi, third: CS health to immediately post all medical interns and pay all school fees for the postgraduate students and fourth: the National Treasury and the government to immediately set a team to resolve all the Healthcare Human Resources Affairs. 

KMPDU added that all the demands placed, to be met with in 24 hours failure to which all public and private sector healthworks will hold a nationwide demonstration.



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