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The highlight of the visit was the meeting with Lord Kamal, UK Minister for Technology, innovation & Life Sciences where key areas of the agreement on Health Workforce were discussed including ethical and mutual beneficial immigration of Kenyan nurses and other Health Workers, Research with emphasis on Oncology, capacity building for Kenyan health workforce & equity on vaccine access.
Kenya and the UK bilateral relations were elevated to Strategic Partnership by H.E. the President, Uhuru Kenyatta and Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the UK through the signing of the UK-Kenya Strategic Partnership 2020-2025 in January 2020.
Further to this, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and the UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs signed an agreement in January, 2021, aimed at deepening the health cooperation between Kenya and UK, particularly in the areas of Universal Health Coverage, research and innovation, health workforce exchange and training, promotion of bilateral trade and investment in health, as well as advancement of global health security.
In the last two years the two governments have signed six health cooperation agreements that are in various stages of implementation.
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Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health, Kenya.