UK halts plan to recruit Kenyan nurses

The UK government has announced that it has stopped the recruitment of Kenyan health professionals to work in the National Health Service (NHS).

This is because Kenya has been added to a UK list of countries where there is a shortage of nurses and other health workers.

In July the UK and Kenya announced a deal that would enable the UK to reduce employment shortages in the NHS by recruiting nurses from Kenya who were unemployed.

Kenya’s Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe had said 20,000 Kenyan nurses would travel.

However, it is unclear how many had been recruited under this scheme but those who had already been accepted will be able to take up employment in the UK.

Last month, Mr Kagwe said that only 10 out of 300 health workers who had taken the required English language test had passed.

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