Sanyatti
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Kenyan nurses and other health workers will get a chance to work in the UK as part of a new scheme requested by Kenya.
The unemployed health workers will serve in the UK's National Health Service before returning to work in Kenya.
The agreement was signed by UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Kenya's Labour Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui, in the presence of President Uhuru Kenyatta who is on a three-day working visit to the UK.
This is good news for the more than 30,000 jobless Kenyan nurses and healthcare workers, coming barely six months after the UK allowed skilled Kenyans without degrees to apply for work permits in Britain under post-Brexit immigration rules.
In July 2020, UK introduced a new points-based immigration system, implemented from January 2021, which lowered the requirement for job applicants to minimum skill level of A-level or equivalent from degree-level under the 27-member EU bloc system.