Nairobi, May 16 -- Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentist Union (KMPDU) officials on Wednesday met the yet to be posted interns and sought to assure them that the union had not abandoned them.

This happened in the backdrop of the recent meeting between the union officials and President William Ruto, which occurred just days after the doctors' strike was called off, despite no agreement on posting interns.

According to KMPDU Secretary General Dr Davji Atellah, the union and government failed to agree on posting of interns following a disagreement on remuneration.

The government wanted interns to be posted as per a circular released by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC), which had slashed the intern doctors' sal...