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Cuban doctors' mission comes to quiet end

Cuban doctor Maikel Rodriguez Tamajo examines a patient at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Kisumu on July 5, 2018. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

It has been six years of mixed fortunes for 47 specialists and 53 family doctors from Cuba flown in as part of efforts to address human resource challenges rocking Kenya's public sector.

In the aftermath of their controversial arrival in 2017, the Ministry of Health has officially declared terminated their contract.

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