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Blow to jobless Kenyan nurses as UK halts recruitment
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 2021
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A nurse attends to a patient at the Nakuru Level Five Hospital. PHOTO | JOHN NJOROGE | NMG
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By BRIAN NGUGI
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The British government has stopped the recruitment of jobless nurses from Kenya in a surprise move.
The UK Department of Health announced Thursday, November 11, that it was suspending the hiring process, citing an existing labour shortage of the health workers in the country.
Kenya and Britain on July 29 signed a deal that was expected to benefit unemployed surplus medics, who would serve in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) before returning to Nairobi.