Kenya: State House Says Cuban Doctors to Work in Rural Areas

The government will only hire specialist doctors from Cuba and they will be deployed to the rural areas, State House has said.

Responding to objections by Kenyan doctors to the hiring of medics from Cuba, the State House Chief of Staff and Head of the President's Delivery Unit Nzioka Waita, said only experts in areas such as oncology (cancer), nephrology (kidney) and dermatology (skin) would be brought to Kenya.

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