Tongaren lawmaker Eseli Simiyu has faulted the government's move to import 100 Cuban doctors.
The 100 medics are expected in the country on June 7, with the government through the Ministry of Health recently expressing confidence that their arrival will help improve the Kenyan health system, considering that Cuba is ranked among the best healthcare destinations globally.
According to Simiyu who spoke on Radio Citizen's 'Mjadala wa Jambo Kenya' Wednesday morning, however, the Cuban government is not in the agreement to share its medical prowess with the lower-ranked Kenya as is publicized, but is out to sell its excess produce.
He claimed that the hefty salary that has since been allocated for the doctors who are set to be dispatched in county hospitals will be paid to the government and not the individual doctors, with the medics set to only receive a portion of the money.
''Serikali ya Cuba iko katika biashara. Ni kama modern day slave-trade na imechukua hii nafasi kuuzia Kenya madaktari zaidi isiowahitaji kwa muda mfupi (the Cuban government is in business. Its like a modern day slave trade and is out to sell its extra produce of doctors to Kenya),'' he said.
The legislator added that the visit is a win-win situation for the Cuba, saying that the doctors will also get to learn new diseases while in the county, before relaying the result back home for scientific interventions.
''Pia wako wanakuja kugundua magonjwa mapya. Nia yao kubwa sio kusaidia Kenya (the other plan is to make new discoveries and not to lend a hand to Kenya),'' added the leader who is also a doctor by profession.