Tanzanian President Magufuli agrees to send 500 Tanzania doctors to Kenya.

Doctors in Kenya are extremely not impressed by the government plan of hiring medics from Tanzania, this is after president John Magufuli government agreed to send its medics to the country to meet a shortage of doctors in Kenya following a deal between the two countries.

According to doctors, the 500 foreign health providers will be too expensive to maintain.

The government should also first hire 1,400 local doctors who are unemployed before getting foreign medics, doctors argue

According to the doctors’ union secretary general Ouma Oluga Kenya has about 1,400 doctors awaiting employment. It could be very costly and therefore a show of imprudent public finance management to have 500 Tanzania doctors at KSh 20,000 per day.