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The return to work formula that was to be signed today, had the government had its way, could have become a rare solution in a sector riddled with strikes in the last two decades.
Interviews and conversations that The Standard has had with stakeholders in the health sector, including a former minister of health, reveal that the sector has been unsettled since the Kanu era and that medics have continued to raise demands, which authorities have failed to meet, since 2004.
President Mwai Kibaki's administration, which was voted in with excitement and high expectations, was greeted with health workers' wrath three years into office. In 2005, 2300 medics went on strike demanding a 600 per cent pay increase.
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