{"id":11310,"date":"2020-07-17T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=11310"},"modified":"2020-07-17T17:13:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:13:30","slug":"20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight","title":{"rendered":"20 Cuban medical personnel to jet in Kenya tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Bilateral agreement between the Kenyan government and the Cuban government have been extended giving room for 20 medical doctors to arrive in the country tonight.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Mutahi Kagwe the doctors will be adding their expertise to what the country has in fight against the pandemic.\u201cThe doctors will serve and offer services in the next six months.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is for these doctors to work with our doctors to gain knowledge from each other. Since 2018 we have worked to improve healthcare services with the Cuban government,\u201d said the CS.In 2018, the Kenyan government received 100 Cuban doctors \u2013 47 specialists and 53 family physicians \u2013 who were flown in to address human resource challenges that have rocked the public health sector since independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese particular one is a special brigade that will be stationed at Kenyatta University and not across the country. They are specialized doctors in Internal medicine, Oncology, Cardiology, Renal and Paediatrics. With the Covid-19 cases rising, these specialized doctors will go a long way in supporting our doctors in managing the disease and exchanging in terms of skill development,\u201d added Kagwe.<\/p>\n<p>The government is also setting up an Integrated Molecular Imaging Centre (MIC) at the Kenyatta teaching, Research and Referral hospital.According to the CS, the centre will be the first public Molecular Imaging Centre of its kind in the country as well as in the East and Central African region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe centre which will be ready for use in about nine months will see no need for Kenyans to go to India or South Africa to access PET-scan machines and other key equipment to diagnose and treat cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The centre will also set the first public manufacturing plant for consumables used in the PET-scan machines. This machine called Cyclotrone and is only available in South Africa and North Africa,\u201d he added.Cancer treatment has over the years been regarded as a costly affair in the country with many Kenyans preferring to seek medication overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics from Kenya&#8217;s ministry of health shows that there are 27,000 cancer related deaths and 40,000 new diagnoses annually.According to Kagwe, President Uhuru Kenyatta has approved the project to save lives of Kenyans who wait for long periods to get proper and fast diagnosis of cancer. The project is expected to break grounds in the next few weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Kenya: Bilateral agreement between the Kenyan government and the Cuban government have been extended giving room for 20 medical doctors to arrive in the country tonight. According to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Mutahi Kagwe the doctors will be adding their expertise to what the country has in fight against the pandemic.\u201cThe doctors will serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,2111,7,8],"tags":[4692,4691,447,4690],"class_list":["post-11310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-kenya","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-cuban-doctors","tag-kenyatta-teaching","tag-mutahi-kagwe","tag-research-and-referral-hospital"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>20 Cuban medical personnel to jet in Kenya tonight - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bilateral agreement between the Kenyan government and the Cuban government have been extended giving room for 20 medical doctors to arrive in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"20 Cuban medical personnel to jet in Kenya tonight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bilateral agreement between the Kenyan government and the Cuban government have been extended giving room for 20 medical doctors to arrive in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-17T17:13:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/07\/20_cuban_medical_per5f11a8b387257.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"502\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"20 Cuban medical personnel to jet in Kenya tonight\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-17T17:13:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight\"},\"wordCount\":395,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/07\/20_cuban_medical_per5f11a8b387257.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Cuban doctors\",\"Kenyatta teaching\",\"Mutahi Kagwe\",\"Research and Referral hospital.\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Coronavirus in kenya\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/20-cuban-medical-personnel-to-jet-in-kenya-tonight\",\"name\":\"20 Cuban medical personnel to jet in Kenya tonight - 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