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Scars inflicted by the just-ended doctors’ strike have not begun to scab, yet a resumption of hostilities appears imminent if doctors make true an unspecified threat following the order by Health Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri directing counties not to pay doctors salaries for the time they were not on duty.
Arguably, pay is for work done and doctors have no moral ground to demand remuneration for the three months in which they neglected their patients. However, the resumption of work was based on a return-to-work formula that took into account the pay issue.
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