The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers(KUPPET) has threatened to involve Gen z in demonstrations, should the government fail to reinstate teachers’ medical scheme.

KUPPET Chair Amboko Milemba observed that the cover has been beneficial to teachers and abolishing it would greatly disadvantage them.

Speaking at a burial in Bomet County, he said the union has received complaints from teachers over the inaccessibility of the medical cover scheme provided by the Teachers Service Commission.

“Teachers have resorted to harambees, which should not be acceptable because they have comprehensive health insurance cover. We now demand that this matter be addressed immediately,” said Milemba.

Milemba now wants the problem addressed, saying teachers have been forced to seek services from public facilities after private and mission hospitals stopped the same.

Acting Secretary General Moses Nthurima on his part urged the Teachers Service Commission to settle overdue hospital bills, noting that for the past nine months, health facilities had not received government disbursements.

Though the government has paid Sh15 billion towards the medical scheme, Nthurima said teachers are back to the bad old days of holding fundraisings to offset medical and funeral expenses.

“Many teachers have been forced to pay for services from their own pockets while others are being detained at hospitals that have withdrawn their services for inpatient care. This is wrong and unacceptable,” noted Nthurima.

The union also decried delays in hospital admissions, discrimination in some hospitals, delayed referral processing and raising money for orthopedic implants for accident victims, adding that access to quality health services is a basic right.

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