Unfortunately, if one were to listen to our political class, they would be forgiven to think the pandemic is but a distant memory. In the meantime, county governments are uniformly having difficulties managing human resources for health, and we are returning to the era of industrial unrest in the sector. For the past few weeks, the country has been gripped with theatrics around an otherwise routine parliamentary debate on division of a few billion shillings to the counties. But only if the coalitions manage to hold for the next couple of years, which is saying a lot in this country. The average citizen is being made to feel as though the entire world will come to an end if the politicians fail to agree.

Source: Daily Nation August 22, 2020 20:50 UTC