Doctors fault plan to import health workers from Cuba [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Mar. 19, 2018, 9:00 am
By EMMANUEL WANJALA @itswanjala


Doctors have faulted the government’s plans to hire medical workers from Cuba while thousands are jobless in Kenya.

The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists' Union officials said there are over 1,000 trained doctors who have not been employed since last year.

"H.E, if the @SicilyKariuki and @KenyaGovernors haven't explained, Kenya has 1,000 doctors who are not employed. They have waited for deployment since May 2017. There are additional specialists who have been waiting for deployment to counties. Is there room for these Drs in Kenya?" KMPDU Secretary General Ouma Oluga said via twitter on Monday.

"We have a serious shortage of doctors countrywide. The decision by the government to bring in doctors from Cuba should take into consideration the more than 1,200 Kenyan doctors currently unemployed since May 2017,” KMPDU Deputy Secretary-General Mwachonda Chibanzi said.

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