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In Kenya, 24 per cent of nurses are male. [Courtesy]
As the world marked Nurses Day this week, gender disparity in the profession came into sharp focus with only 13 per cent of the world s nurses being men.
In Kenya, 24 per cent of nurses are male. In other words, for every ten nurses, just about two are male.
However, according to Seth Panyako, the secretary-general of Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), the world doesn t need more men in the nursing profession but more professional nurses - both male and female.
“There is no crisis to warrant that we encourage more men to become nurses,” Panyako says.