The nation has a shortage of more than 40,000 health workers, the Kenya Medical Training College director Philip Kaloki has said.
He said the shortage has been made worse by exodus of the workers to other counties.
“A huge number of nurses get jobs abroad, particularly in the USA, Canada, Australia and European Union counties,” he said.
Kaloki spoke at Mosoriot Provincial Rural Health Hospital in Nandi yesterday while inspecting Mosoriot KMTC campus, to be opened in September.
He said Kenya produces some of the best health workers in Africa, especially in clinical medicine, nursing and environmental health.
Kaloki said another KMTC campus will be opened in Kaptumo.
“There is an urgent need for the country to be self-sufficient in health professionals,” Kaloki said.