Kenya Ends Arrangement To Swap Doctors With Cuba

KENYA – Kenya’s government announced Wednesday it would not be renewing a six-year-old deal that saw Cuban doctors employed in Kenya while those from the east African country travelled to Cuba for specialized training.

The program was unpopular with Kenya’s main doctors union, partly because the Cuban doctors received more than double the average salary of their Kenyan counterparts.

Critics argued the money would be better spent on Kenya’s medical infrastructure and on its own doctors.