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KHPOA CEO Dr Jackson Kioko when he appeared before the Joint meeting of the National Assembly Education and Health Committees at Parliament on November 25, 2025. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
The midwife helping your wife to deliver, the lab technician testing your samples in hospital, or the caregiver looking after your ageing parent may have trained at a college where classes run for just two months.
These are findings of a survey by the Health Professions Oversight Authority (HPOA), which uncovered colleges employing tutors with the same qualifications as their students and admitting learners with widely inconsistent grades for identical courses.
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