Written By Gerald Gekara | |
Mutahi Kagwe has called for a paradigm shift in healthcare professional training in order to improve the country’s global competitiveness.
Speaking at the Kenya Medical Training College’s Nairobi campus during the opening of an English language training program for nurses, Kagwe noted that scaling up training should not only focus on increasing the number of health workers, but also on improving service quality.
He underlined that the government does not want to send healthcare employees to work in other countries at the expense of the country’s health system.
“Kenya is no longer training a workforce just for Kenya. We are training a workforce for the region, we are also training a workforce for the international community. Demographics across the world have created opportunities that perhaps we never anticipated.” Said Kagwe.
The Kenyan government is revolutionising the health sector to guarantee that health facilities adopt ICT in their operations, the health CS stated, noting that the world is heading towards digital health.
Deputy British High Commissioner to Kenya Josephine Gauld, said the partnership originates from a bilateral health partnership agreement signed in January 2021.
The pact aims to find innovative ways to collaborate in order to improve the health and well-being of their respective citizens.
The agreement intends to improve Kenya’s health system’s ability to provide universal health coverage and eliminate maternal and child deaths that are preventable.
In July of last year, the two countries inked a new memorandum of understanding on health workforce partnership, building on their previous accord.
It also provides qualified and unemployed nurses with an opportunity to work in the United Kingdom.
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