Hiring foreign health workers is easier said than done

Kenyatta National Hospital (Photo: Boniface Okendo)

Toying with thoughts of employing foreign health professionals to replace striking Kenyan doctors is akin to planning to take a walk in a professional minefield. Following the doctors’ rejection of the government’s 40 per cent pay increment proposal, Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu has hinted that the government could look offshore for alternatives.