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Why MPs want Cuban doctors out of country

Dr Yanleys Herera, a Cuban heart specialist, attends to a patient at the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital in Nakuru on June 16, 2020. [File, Standard]

A parliamentary committee wants the national government not to renew the contracts of Cuban doctors who have been in the country for the last six years.

Speaking in Mombasa, members of the Departmental Committee on Health said the Cubans have served their purpose and it is time they returned to their country.

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