08-03-2017 15:51 via yahoo.com

Kenya to hire foreign doctors as strike talks fail again

Kenyan authorities said Wednesday they would hire foreign doctors to get public hospitals running again after talks failed to end a strike that has crippled healthcare for 94 days.The government has threatened repeatedly to fire striking doctors and has even gone so far as to jail union officials in a bid to end the country's longest-ever medical strike, but the doctors are digging their heels in.A furious President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday lambasted the some 5,000 doctors who have been strikin
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