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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.
Speaking on Kameme FM, Kagwe admitted that election periods are often filled with promises from candidates seeking power, but the reality hits after they take office. At the time, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, now the President, promised to look into doctors' welfare.
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