Mon, Jul 27, 2009 – Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Monday called on professionals trained locally to commit a fraction of their careers to serving the country after training before they go abroad for greener pastures if they must.
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Odinga was speaking when he met His Highness the Aga Khan, who called on him.
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The Aga Khan, who is in the country for a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Aga Khan University, said he is keen to help Kenya attain higher standards in provision of healthcare and training of health workers.
He said his network is keen to put up an institution for training of more doctors at nurses at graduate and post graduate level and provide research facilities to keep the professionals around.
The Aga Khan said that currently, Kenya and India are the highest suppliers of doctors and nurses to the developed world, a situation he said is unfortunate.
“We must provide sufficient reasons to make the doctors see the need to remain here. We need institutions with best practises. We suffer brain drain because we have no institutions that thrive on best practices” he observed.
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