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Last batch of Cuban doctors elated on arrival despite court order

Cuban doctors arrive at JKIA on June 7, 2018. [Jonah Onyango/Standard]

A few minutes before 10.00 pm on Thursday, the flight carrying the last batch of the 100 Cuban doctors contracted to work in Kenya touched ground at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

After an intense check at the immigration desk that lasted almost two hours, they started streaming into the three waiting buses ready to ferry them to the Kenya school of government where 50 of their colleagues who arrived two days before were being inducted.

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