Health PS Susan Mochache disclosed they are to be paid Ksh144,000 every month on top of their monthly salary which will be stipend from next month.
“Further, the doctors are paid a monthly basic salary of 80 percent and all other monthly allowances.
“The doctors have been paid the (one-off) book allowance at Sh50,000 and research allowance at Sh75,000,” Mochache told MPs on Thursday.
Local papers reported that the money is to be sent to their bank accounts in Kenya, but they can access it in Cuba.
Mochache appeared before the parliamentary Health committee following concerns over the welfare of the trainees.
The deplorable conditions of the Kenyan trainees were exposed after Dr Hamisi Ali Juma allegedly committed suicide in the foreign country
The Senate has launched investigations into the welfare of 49 Kenya doctors on an exchange programme in Cuba amid complaints that deplorable conditions led to the death of Dr Ali Juma. https://t.co/iF7tV0HCu5
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A report by a local paper indicated that the doctors were forced to live in difficult conditions of frustration in their
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Health dispatched a team of experts to assess the living conditions and general welfare of the Kenyan doctors.
Ministry of Health sends officials to investigate the working conditions of Kenyan doctors in Cuba; report due on March 30, 2019. This follows the death of Dr. Hamisi Juma Ali in Havana pic.twitter.com/mbj6P8oHTS
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Its mandate will involve making a review and a report on the circumstances that led to the death Ali Juma, who was a brother to Likoni MP Mishi Mboko.
The team that left the country on Wednesday is led by Rashid Aman, the Health Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS).