Clinical officers have said they may not be covered in a labour exchange deal signed between Kenya and the United Kingdom. President Uhuru Kenyatta signed an agreement with the UK government to allow some health workers to be employed abroad. Austin Oduor, the president of the Global Association of Clinical Officers and Physicians Associates told the Star on Friday the deal will only benefit nurses and doctors. There are 26,000 clinical officers, Oduor told the Star in Migori town on Friday. Oduor said the government has only employed roughly 6,000 clinical officers with “others still working in private facilities and NGOs.”“We have a lot of surplus of clinical officers and we can have government deals to consider us, too, for exchange,” he said.

Source: The Star July 30, 2021 12:11 UTC