Kenyan doctors given five days to end strike

A Kenyan court yesterday gave doctors and nurses five days to end a crippling nationwide strike, reneging on an earlier threat to jail union officials.

The strike that began on December 5 has left public hospitals shut and patients unable to get basic medical care for more than seven weeks.

Hellen Wasilwa, a judge at Kenya's Employment and Labour Relations Court, on January 12 gave seven union officials one-month suspended sentences and ordered them to end the strike within two weeks.