Kenya: Health Crisis Looms as CS Rotich Fails to Honour Doctors' Pay Deal

A national health crisis is looming after the government on Wednesday ruled out allocating Sh11.6 billion to the counties for doctors and nurses' salaries as provided for in the Collective Bargaining Agreement signed last year.

Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich said it would not be possible to provide the money and asked the counties to work within the Sh314 billion allocated to them, meaning that they will have to adjust their development budgets.

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