Newly built Kenya Medical Training Colleges (KMTCs) will receive nurses and clinical officers to boost quality of training for healthcare providers, board director Peter Tum has said.
Responding to queries on how the facilities which are being expanded to cover all the 47 counties will offer quality training, Tum said they had a programme which ensures health officers are sent to resource the new centres.
He spoke in Maseno during the final of the KMTC ball games which were held there.
“For us to be able to expand, we first ensure that the programme in which we are expanding has adequate staff,” he said.
“As we are expanding, we have taken over a programme of employing faculty to go and resource these centres,” he added.
He said the hosting county government put in place the infrastructure such as the classrooms and the hostels.
In the deal, counties were required to provide land for the expansion of training facilities to accommodate more students as a way of bridging the health staff shortage in the country.
He said the new institutions and expansion of old ones would see admissions soar to over 14, 000 annually form below 10, 000 currently. Health workers shortage stands at 40, 000 nationally.