UK Government Freezes Hiring of Kenyan Healthcare Workers
The UK government has halted the recruitment of Kenyan healthcare workers with immediate effect.
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (NHS) said the freeze is meant to ensure Kenya does not suffer a shortage of health workers.
Kenyan healthcare workers who had already received job offers in the UK before November 11th will be allowed to complete the process.
“If employers have already given conditional offers to nurses or other health or social care personnel from Kenya on, or prior to Thursday 11th November 2021, the recruitment process can continue,” the NHS said.
“This recognizes the investment which has already been made to get the candidate to this stage and will ensure candidates who are fully expecting to be able to move to the UK to work are treated fairly.”
The NHS said Kenya was added to the amber list, meaning it needed protection against labor hemorrhage that could throw the country into a health crisis.
“Adding Kenya to the amber list will protect the country from unmanaged international recruitment which could exacerbate existing health and social care workforce shortages,” said the NHS.
During President Kenyatta’s visit to London in July, Kenya and the UK signed a labor agreement, allowing Kenyan caregivers to be employed in the UK public healthcare system. The MoU on the Kenya-UK Health Workforce Collaboration provides a framework for the exchange of healthcare workers between the two countries.
In September, Labor Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui said Kenya would send at least 20,000 nurses to the UK to address a shortage of 62,000. There are nearly 900 Kenyan nurses presently working in the UK National Health Service.
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Yes, UK was never interested in hiring Kenyans to begin with and hence the silly English language exam. It was so ignorant and total lack of wisdom for CS Mutahi to claim that our nurses failed in that exam while in actual sense this silly test was meant to stop our nurses from working in the UK. Let us continue to support our nurses as they continue to be overworked in very parlous conditions.
Stop blaming CS mutahi Kagwe for exposing kenya of its POOR education system. ' THE NURSES SIMPLY FAILED THE EXAM " not even kenya newsmedia editors have what it takes they don't know the right grammar. i.e what do you make of this . He took her wife to ---- or she said his husband was a humble man bla bla . don't blame the Britishers they have their right and it is Kenya government which should pay better salaries to stop the exodus that is the only reason people leave home if you want to emply someone who can teach your children kikuyu you will want that person to pass the test so stop always being negative mugikuyu we
Kenya doesn’t have enough nurses or doctors.
Once upon a time, the UK would have been donating doctors and nurses to Kenya.
Yes. I refuse to allow a second wave of slavery!
DIE DIGNIFIED, poor or not, shame be to MUTAHI KAGWE, a moderm SLAVE DRADER!
They realized what they were getting wasn’t good enough! How do the nurse see form their job if they can read English?
Mutahi zero wisdom zero leadership skills zero emotional intelligence. He's a reputation killer. Count the cost of exporting manpower.
@Ineo ur true it’s modern slavery it we the blacks continues to b fools following n worshipping the white man.From Jesus to our colonial masters.Sisi ma blacks nimaziwa lala kabisa.As somebody mentioned we dont have enough nurses.UK did Brexit now it’s hurting them but wamenjua twende Africa tukaokote maslaves.
@ Mkenya halisi and rest of you" who forces anyone to go to work abroad at least in GB we don't hear of killings like in middle east . and you are in the USA enslaving yourselves and have the guts to blame Kagwe . Kagwe is not involved your kikuyu president made the deal. Any one is free to choose to be enslaved going to UK salary and living conditions are far much better not to forget the hospitas are far much better equipped than in Kenya. how can one enjoy working in kenya government hospital witnessing deaths because of lack of medicine or equipment needed to keep one alive a cancer patient being sent home to die cause cannot get chemo therapy etc . who can enjoy people dying at ones watch helplessly
Slavery is coming to an end. We do not have to lift a finger. Time is up. Not that they care!! Writing is on the wall.
Darkest hour just before dawn!!
Of course I call it modern slavery but wait I live and work in the US as a modern slave and in fact I will never go back to kenya where insecurity runs wild hence my screen name.