Kenyan doctors have five days to end strike or go to jail

Kenyan doctors outside the Employment and Labour Relations Court in Nairobi on January 26, 2017 after Judge Hellen Wasilwa extended by five days the suspension of a jail sentence she has granted the doctors’ union officials. PHOTO | MAUREEN KAKAH | NATION MEDIA GROUP

A Kenyan court has extended the suspension of a jail sentence it granted doctors’ union officials on condition that they end their job boycott in five days.

The Employment and Labour Relations Court Judge Hellen Wasilwa on Thursday also ordered the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KPMDU) to continue talks with the government.