Nairobi, March 10 -- The government has until Tuesday midnight to resolve issues that could lead to a doctors' strike.

The medics are demanding the hiring of interns and at least Sh569 billion set aside as the Health budget.

The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) says public hospital doctors will boycott work if talks with government officials fail.

The union wants the government to allocate 15 per cent of its annual budget to Health.

The doctors say doing so would solve problems blamed on inadequate resource allocation, misplaced priorities, dependence on donor funding and corruption.

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