The number of medics ditching public hospitals for private practice is alarming. [File, Standard]The current shortage of doctors will continue until something is done to convince the medics to stay in public hospitals. The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) says that up to 2,300 doctors left public hospitals between 2014 and 2016 for the private sector or to go abroad. Even as this haemorrhage is going on, doctors' union and the Government do not agree on how to make the medics stay in public hospitals or who is to blame. He claimed that after the Government improved their pay, more doctors were applying to work in the public sector.

Source: Standard Digital February 27, 2018 04:52 UTC