Doctors in Kenya are set for another strike to press for better pay as Tanzania reels from a one-month boycott that ended two weeks ago -- a pointer to an ailing health care system that is slowly falling apart.
It is emerging that the Kenya government has reneged on a return to work formula agreed upon with the doctors union last year. Although the doctors were paid a 30 per cent increment on their allowance, the state failed to include senior medical officers in the raise.
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