Ghosts of 2017 UhuRuto-doctors CBA deal returns to haunt Ruto

When then Council of Governors Chairperson Peter Munya, Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union (KMPDU) Chairman Samuel Oroko,then Health CS Cleophas Mailu and then KMPDU Secretary General Ouma Oluga signed a 'Return to work formula ' agreement with the doctors at the Governors offices in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

The 2017 health workers Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), central to the doctors' strike, was influenced by political promises during an election period and will be impossible to implement, according to a former Health Cabinet Secretary.

Mutahi Kagwe, who was not Health CS when the CBA was signed, faced the implications of the agreement when he took over the Ministry just before the Covid-19 outbreak in Kenya in 2020. He spent much of his time negotiating with health workers to prevent industrial action.

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