Nairobi, April 8 -- As the doctors' strike enters its fourth week, public hospitals are literally on their knees. Doctors resorted to industrial action to try to push the Ministry of Health to honour a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) made in 2017.

Their grievances include the delayed posting of interns, fair remuneration of interns, postgraduate training, employment of more doctors and comprehensive health coverage for all medical practitioners.

The expectation of many Kenyans was that devolving the health system to county governments would lead to improvement of service delivery, stimulate innovation in the wider sector, improve access to and equity of available services, and promote accountability and transparency in service del...