Over 400 Doctors From Tanzania Submit Applications For Kenyan Jobs

Over 400 medics from Tanzania have applied for jobs in Kenya.

This is after Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu had extended an invitation to the neighbouring country during the recent 100-day doctors' strike.

Earlier in the month, the Tanzanian government had agreed to send medics to Kenya to mitigate the effects of the strike that had paralysed operations in health institutions.

According to a spokesperson from the Ministry of Health in Tanzania, they had already received 400 applications, though, the March 27 deadline had already passed.

“The deadline for applications was March 27 but we haven’t stopped receiving applications.

“So far at least 400 have applied,” she stated.

One of the medics told a source that he was looking forward to working in Kenya and all he hoped for was team-spirit from doctors of the host country.

“I know it is risky. There are a lot of concerns being raised over this matter of going to work in Kenya.

“It has been two years since I completed my internship and I have not had any meaningful contract to practice medicine,” he remarked.

The long-standing dispute between Kenyan doctors and the government is far from over after the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists union (KMPDU) secretary general Dr Ouma Oluga issued the Health CS with an ultimatum of paying doctors before March 30, failure to which they would down their tools.

The KMPDU has openly criticised the idea of employing doctors from Tanzania and even wanted to be consulted before their counterparts would be brought in.

 

 

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