Embakasi East Member of Parliament Babu Owino has urged president Uhuru Kenyatta to repatriate CUBA doctors and build institutional capacity across the Country.
Speaking during the burial of Dr Hamisi Juma,Babu said that its violation of Kenyans right for Kenya government to offer first life to CUBA doctors while CUBA government is mistreating those from Kenyans.
The MP said its sad day when a country values foreigners more than Kenyans.
“I therefore call upon President Kenyatta to terminate this failed experiment and restore dignity to Kenyan doctors and the Kenyan people. Let the Cubans go back to Cuba and let Kenyans serve Kenyans,”he said.
He regrets that Kenyan doctors are receiving a paltry allowance while Cuban doctors are being paid three times what their Kenyan equivalents are receiving.
” Cuban doctors are not offering any skill that is not already locally available and furthermore, they do not even speak the local languages and therefore cannot effectively interact with patients,”he wondered.
He said there are enough institutions of higher learning in Kenya offering courses to train Kenyans – there is no need for them to go to Cuba when the same course is offered here.