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Health Minister alarmed at staff losses

    NAIROBI

    The exodus of doctors and nurses from public hospitals has become alarming, and poses a threat to health standards in Kenya, according to Health Minister Hussein Maalim Mohamed. Speaking during a tour of health facilities in Machakos District, Eastern Province, Mohamed said the government should improve conditions for health personnel in order to raise health standards, the ‘Daily Nation’ reported. Meanwhile Major Marsden Madoka, Minister of State in the Office of the President, has warned public servants against the misuse of public funds intended for the fight against HIV/AIDS. In a speech read on his behalf by National Aids Control Committee Chairman Dr Abdullah Mohamed at the weekend, Madoka said Kenya was spending a lot of donor money in tackling HIV/AIDS and that misappropriating these funds was tantamount to assisting the spread of the epidemic. Those doing so were “worse enemies than the AIDS itself”, he added.

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