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A parliamentary committee now wants contracts of Cuban doctors who have been operating in the country for the last six years terminated to create room for employment of Kenyan medics.

The Departmental committee on Health, led by Endebess MP Robert Pukose, argued that the Cuban doctors have served their purpose and asked the state to reconsider employing doctors and medics stationed in the counties working under the Universal Health Coverage programme.

Their continued stay in the country, the lawmakers argued, has greatly disadvantaged those trained and yet to be employed.

“The Cuban doctors have suffered their purpose and it is time they went back to their country and their place taken by their Kenyan counterparts because their salaries are enough to employ at least three Kenyans doctors,” said Pukose during a meeting with the State Department of Public Health and professional standards in Mombasa.

“We even have Kenyan doctors who have done family medicine including some of my classmates who are practicing family medicine. These doctors can now take up that role,” he added.

Pukose, however, inquired the whereabouts of the Kenyans doctors who went for an exchange programme in Havana, Cuba.

“In this exchange programme has a whole bunch of our doctors who went to Cuba for capacity building. Where did they go? Pukose posed.