The first batch of nurses which left Kenya for the UK in June last year is doing well, Nusing Council of Kenya CEO Edna Tallam has said.
Tallam on Thursday said reports received from UK show that the caregivers have so far been taken through induction and they are ‘happy’.
"The reports which I have received say that they are onboarded very well, they are happy; they have been taken through the induction processes and they are a team and a community," she said.
“Because of the bilateral labour agreement between the government of Kenya and UK, they are really ensuring their safety and welfare are taken care of,” Tallam added.
The nurses left the country after undergoing a rigorous three month recruitment exercise.
UK and Kenya governments signed a bilateral agreement in July 2021 on health workforce collaboration.
Kenya is expected to send at least 20,000 nurses to the UK in three years in an agreement inked between the two countries when the then President Uhuru Kenyatta visited UK in July 2021.
The agreement facilitates the deployment of qualified but unemployed Kenyan nurses to the UK National Health Service in line with UK's code of practice on international recruitment and the WHO Global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel.
The deal allows Kenyan healthcare professionals to be recruited to work in the National Health Service (NHS).
