KMPDU rejects draft policy on intern doctors

A group of doctors doing internal eye surgery on a four-year-old at Kenyatta National Hospital, in Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

As talks to end health workers strike hit headwinds there's increasing uncertainty around a possible solution. The Ministry of Health has drafted new policy guidelines to manage the now controversial issue of intern doctors.

Doctors have however rubbished the proposed national internship policy terming it illegal, ill-advised and ill-timed.