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Health CS: Cuban doctors are not overpaid

Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki. [WILLIS AWANDU/STANDARD]

Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki has dismissed claims that the Cuban doctors coming to Kenya will be overpaid and described those opposed to the scheme as "not a critical set of people".

Speaking in Geneva, Switzerland, after the conclusion of the 71st World Health Assembly, Kariuki singled out the media for what she termed as inaccurate reporting.

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